Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Carson, Johnny

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

13.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

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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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

18.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

21.

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

22.

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

Novalis

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

25.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Rudner, Rita

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Byron, Lord

35.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

38.

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

West, Mae

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

Victoria, Queen

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Spencer, Herbert

42.

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

Nick Faldo

43.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

44.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

46.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.