Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Byron, Lord

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

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

Coward, Noel

15.

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

16.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

19.

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

20.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

24.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

25.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

27.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Peter Blake

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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.

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

Murray, Joe

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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

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

Irving, Washington

33.

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

Penn, William

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Baskins

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

42.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

43.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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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

48.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.