Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Peter Blake

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

Wilson, Earl

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Congreve, William

10.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

12.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Kauffman, Max

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Hitopadesa

18.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jong, Erica

28.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

31.

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

33.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

35.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

36.

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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

40.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

41.

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

Andre Maurois

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

43.

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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Murray, Joe

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare