Motivational Quotes

Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Marriage

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Alexander, Shana

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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

11.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Key, Ellen

13.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

21.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

22.

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

23.

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

Rudner, Rita

24.

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

Cosby, Bill

25.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

26.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

30.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

31.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

38.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

39.

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

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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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

43.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

44.

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

45.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

46.

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.

47.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.