Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Knowles, F. M.

12.

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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

14.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

18.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

22.

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

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

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

Bundy, Peg

26.

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

Mickey Rooney

27.

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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Novalis

30.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

31.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

32.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

33.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Moliere

46.

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

Nick Faldo

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen