Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baskins

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Nick Faldo

10.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

11.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

12.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

13.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

14.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

15.

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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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

18.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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

21.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

30.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

31.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

32.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

33.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

34.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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