Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

12.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

13.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

14.

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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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

Baskins

19.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

20.

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

Proverb, German

21.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

22.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Nick Faldo

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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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

30.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Rita Rudner

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Congreve, William

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

45.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.