Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Updike, John

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

10.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

11.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

12.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Baskins

21.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

24.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

33.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

39.

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

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

45.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Luther, Martin

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

Peter Blake

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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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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