Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Hesiod

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

13.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Vries, Peter De

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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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.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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