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

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Hitopadesa

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

Updike, John

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

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

Bush, Barbara

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Mae West

10.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

11.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

19.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

20.

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

Harrison, Jane

21.

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

22.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

25.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

28.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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

30.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

31.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

32.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

33.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

34.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Vries, Peter De

36.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

37.

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.

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

Helen Rowland

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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