Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Luther, Martin

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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.

10.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

19.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Hesiod

21.

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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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?

Streisand, Barbara

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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

25.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

36.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

37.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Vries, Peter De

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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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

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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

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Rieux, Madame De