Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

10.

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

11.

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

Cosby, Bill

12.

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

Mae West

13.

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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

16.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

19.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Bennett, Jill

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

22.

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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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

24.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

25.

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

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

27.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

32.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Duncan, Isadora

34.

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

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

37.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

39.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

40.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

46.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Kinison, Sam

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien