Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

10.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

11.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

16.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

17.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

28.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

30.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

35.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

39.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

41.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

42.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

49.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.