Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

West, Mae

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

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

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

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

Jong, Erica

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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

11.

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

12.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

13.

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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

17.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

Coward, Noel

20.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

21.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

33.

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.

Landers, Ann

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

39.

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

40.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

41.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

42.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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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

50.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie