Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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.

Landers, Ann

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

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

10.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

11.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

12.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

13.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

14.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Lennon, John

18.

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

Alexander, Shana

19.

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

20.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

21.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

22.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

24.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

27.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

31.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Harrison, Jane

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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

40.

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

41.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

42.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

43.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

44.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

45.

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

46.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

48.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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