Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Bundy, Peg

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Graham, James

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

40.

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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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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