Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Byron, Lord

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Baum, Vicki

10.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

11.

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

12.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

13.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

15.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

19.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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.

23.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

25.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

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

27.

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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

32.

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

Kathleen Norris

33.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

34.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

35.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Prior, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Nick Faldo

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

48.

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

Victoria, Queen