Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Winters, Shelley

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Helen Rowland

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Rita Rudner

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bush, Barbara

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De