Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Eliot, George

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mae West

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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

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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

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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

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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

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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

Proverb

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

Moliere

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

Helen Rowland

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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?