Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Wilder, Thornton

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

11.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

13.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Proverb

16.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

29.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Key, Ellen

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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

37.

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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish