Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Will Rogers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Key, Ellen

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

10.

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

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

17.

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

18.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

19.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

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

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

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

West, Mae

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

26.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

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

29.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

34.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

35.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Kathleen Norris

37.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

40.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

42.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

43.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Maurois, Andre

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