Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

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

Sunday, Billy

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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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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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

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