Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Proverb, Spanish

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

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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

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

Murray, Joe

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Baum, Vicki

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Winters, Shelley

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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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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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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

43.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Elizabeth I

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.