Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

- Alan Patrick Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Vass, Susan

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

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

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Marx, Groucho

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois