Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Byron, Lord

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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

11.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

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

Rowland, Helen

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

Murray, Joe

19.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

20.

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

21.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

22.

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

Miller, Harlan

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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

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

26.

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

Mickey Rooney

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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

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

29.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

30.

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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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Kathleen Norris

34.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

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

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

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

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

43.

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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

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.

49.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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