Motivational Quotes

Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Miller, Harlan

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Helen Rowland

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

Proverb

10.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

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

12.

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

Coward, Noel

13.

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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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

19.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

20.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

22.

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

Kauffman, Max

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

31.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

32.

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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Murray, Joe

41.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

43.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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