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

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Elizabeth I

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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

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Murray, Joe

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Mae West

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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