Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Marriage

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Proverb

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

11.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

12.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

West, Mae

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

Myers, Cecil

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

33.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Rowland, Helen

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody