Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Wycherley, William

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Coward, Noel

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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

14.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

15.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

18.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

22.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

25.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Nelms, Cynthia

27.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Duncan, Isadora

32.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

34.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

35.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

38.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

39.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

40.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Harrison, Jane

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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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver