Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Farquhar, George

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Victoria, Queen

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Jong, Erica

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

23.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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

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

Eliot, George

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Novalis

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

31.

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

32.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

33.

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

Bush, Barbara

34.

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

Hull, Raymond

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

William Shakespeare

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Baskins

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis