Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jong, Erica

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Rita Rudner

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

Graham, James

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

Grizzard, Lewis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

10.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

12.

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

Kauffman, Max

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

15.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Congreve, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

18.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

22.

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

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Luther, Martin

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Kinison, Sam

37.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

42.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

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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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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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