Motivational Quotes

Marriage

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

19.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

22.

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

Kauffman, Max

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Andre Maurois

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Myers, Cecil

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

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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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

34.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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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

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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

39.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

42.

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

Allen, Woody

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

44.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

45.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny