Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

12.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

15.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

16.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mae West

25.

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

Nick Faldo

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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 the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

33.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

36.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

37.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Balzac, Honore De

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

45.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Farquhar, George

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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