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

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

11.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

20.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

21.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

22.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

25.

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

Updike, John

26.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

27.

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

Rieux, Madame De

28.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

29.

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

30.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

32.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

33.

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

34.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Coward, Noel

42.

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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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

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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

45.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.