Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Key, Ellen

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 think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

Novalis

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

Mae West

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

Updike, John

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Farquhar, George

21.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Luther, Martin

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Vries, Peter De

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rowland, Helen

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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