Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Sydney

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Shakespeare

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

14.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

23.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

24.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

27.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

28.

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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.

31.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

35.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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