Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ford, Richard

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

15.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

18.

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

19.

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

Harrison, Jane

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

21.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

27.

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

Congreve, William

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb

33.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

41.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Duncan, Isadora