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

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

Wilder, Thornton

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

10.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

11.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

13.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

14.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

15.

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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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

27.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

28.

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

Novalis

29.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

31.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

32.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

33.

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

34.

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

Rooney, Mickey

35.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Prior, Matthew

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

43.

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

44.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Duncan, Isadora

46.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.