Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Elizabeth I

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

Victoria, Queen

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

14.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

23.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

27.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

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

29.

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

Mickey Rooney

30.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

31.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

32.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

34.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

35.

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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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

42.

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.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis