Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Vries, Peter De

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Proverb, German

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Bennett, Jill

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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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

21.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

23.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

25.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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.

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

45.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

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