Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Eliot, George

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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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

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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

14.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

16.

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

Moliere

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Heine, Heinrich

24.

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

25.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Allen, Woody

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Mae West

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Pancoast, Mal

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

48.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus