Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

- Streisand, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Elizabeth I

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

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

10.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

12.

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

Murray, Joe

13.

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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

15.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

16.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Key, Ellen

18.

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

19.

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

Hitopadesa

20.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

22.

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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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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

27.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

32.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

33.

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

34.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Congreve, William

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

44.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

49.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Jong, Erica