Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Mae West

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

12.

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

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Knowles, F. M.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Elizabeth I

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

30.

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

32.

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

33.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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

39.

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

Bundy, Peg

40.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Proverb, Scottish