Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Marriage

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Clarke, W. A.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Baum, Vicki

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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

11.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lennon, John

18.

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

19.

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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Elizabeth I

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

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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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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

29.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Winters, Shelley

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Young, Brigham

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

Helen Rowland

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

42.

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

Murray, Joe

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

46.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Hitopadesa

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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

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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