Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Wilson, Earl

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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

Baskins

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Rowland, Helen

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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 like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Winters, Shelley

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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 takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Prior, Matthew

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Rooney, Mickey