Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Baskins

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

10.

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

Myers, Cecil

11.

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

12.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

13.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

17.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

18.

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

Wilder, Thornton

19.

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

20.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Vass, Susan

24.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Moliere

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

28.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

29.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

30.

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

Wycherley, William

31.

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

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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

33.

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

34.

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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Pearl Buck

39.

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

40.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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