Motivational Quotes

Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

10.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

11.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

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

Elizabeth I

19.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Mae West

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

26.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

28.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

29.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

30.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

35.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

36.

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

37.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Maurois, Andre

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

44.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Congreve, William

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George