Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

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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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

William Shakespeare

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Updike, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

28.

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.

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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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Rita Rudner

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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

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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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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Nick Faldo

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.