Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baskins

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

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

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

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

10.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

12.

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

Irving, Washington

13.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

14.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

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

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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

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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

18.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

19.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

23.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

24.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Rieux, Madame De

26.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

27.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

28.

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

Key, Ellen

30.

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

31.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

33.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

37.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

40.

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

Clarke, W. A.

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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.

Ann Landers

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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

45.

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

Proverb, German

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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

47.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert