Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

10.

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

Alexander, Shana

11.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

West, Mae

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

27.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

28.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Ziglar, Zig

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Mae West

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Moliere

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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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Duncan, Isadora

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.