Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

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.

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Proverb, German

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

11.

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

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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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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

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

16.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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

Marx, Groucho

19.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

24.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

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

Chopin, Daniel

31.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

32.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Key, Ellen

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

37.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

38.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

39.

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

40.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

42.

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

Proverb, Scottish

43.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur