Best Marriage Thoughts
4814 Marriage quotes by 2421 unique authors
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
— William Shakespeare
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My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
— Henry Fielding
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within…
— George Eliot
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
— Oscar Wilde
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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
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Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.
— Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
— Elsa Maxwell
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
— Colley Cibber
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
— Samuel Johnson
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I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
— Anne Sexton
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of…
— Charles Lamb
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
— H. L. Mencken
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
— Thomas More
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
— Rebecca West
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the…
— John Selden
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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