Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Updike, John

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

Ann Landers

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

18.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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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 is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

22.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennett, Jill

25.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Skelton, Red

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

29.

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

Will Rogers

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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

33.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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

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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

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dave Meurer

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.