Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

- Gaskell, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

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

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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.

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wilson, Earl

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.