Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

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

Maurois, Andre

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Wycherley, William

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

16.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Harrison, Jane

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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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

25.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

27.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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

32.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

33.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mae West

35.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

41.

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

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Proverb, Scottish

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril