Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

13.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

14.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

15.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

16.

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

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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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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

23.

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

Victoria, Queen

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

25.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Rita Rudner

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Winters, Shelley

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

41.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

44.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

49.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa