Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Cosby, Bill

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Clarke, W. A.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Mae West

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Key, Ellen

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Byron, Lord

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Samuel, Herbert

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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