Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Halen

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rooney, Mickey

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

10.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

12.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

13.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

14.

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

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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

16.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

17.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

18.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

19.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

21.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

22.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

23.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

Harrison, Jane

25.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

26.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

27.

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

28.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

29.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

30.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

31.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

32.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

33.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

34.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

36.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

37.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

39.

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

40.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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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

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

47.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

48.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

49.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.