Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Smith, Sydney

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

William Shakespeare

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

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

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

17.

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

18.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

19.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

20.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

21.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Key, Ellen

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

28.

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] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

30.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

32.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

33.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

34.

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

35.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Chopin, Daniel

40.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Peter Blake

45.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

46.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

47.

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

48.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney