Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Congreve, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Mencken, H. L.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Mae West

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Key, Ellen

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Fuller, Thomas

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Eucharista Ward

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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