Motivational Quotes

Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Vries, Peter De

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

20.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

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

Coward, Noel

22.

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

Harrison, Jane

23.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

26.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

28.

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

32.

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

Wycherley, William

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

38.

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

Kauffman, Max

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

43.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rieux, Madame De

45.

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

Myers, Cecil

46.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.