Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Coward, Noel

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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