Top 100 Marriage Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best marriage quotes ever written, picked out of the full marriage archive on QuoteForever. You will find Henry Adams, H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Ambrose Bierce and Franz Kafka among them.

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There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

4

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He ... - Jeff Douglas 7

There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

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Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

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A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

13

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

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Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

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Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

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Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

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There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

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If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

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I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

30

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

31

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

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I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

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I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

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I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

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a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

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I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

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Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

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The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

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I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

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I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

50

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

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Marriage is like a formality for me.

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Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

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The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

55

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

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To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

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most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.

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I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

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There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

61

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

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

63

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

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three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

69

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

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I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.

71

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

72

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

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Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

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Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

76

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

77

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

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Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

79

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

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If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

81

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

82

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

83

I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

84

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

85

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

86

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

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Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.

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Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

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The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

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Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

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In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

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The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

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The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

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If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.

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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

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I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

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