Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kinison, Sam

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Alexander, Shana

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Eliot, George

16.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

17.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

20.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

21.

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

27.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

28.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

33.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

35.

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

Hitopadesa

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

41.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

42.

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

43.

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

45.

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

46.

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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Mae West

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

Rowland, Helen