Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

11.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

12.

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

Prior, Matthew

13.

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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

16.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

19.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Andre Maurois

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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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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 doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Bundy, Peg

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Carson, Johnny

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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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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