Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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.

Ann Landers

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

12.

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

Ford, Richard

13.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

17.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

18.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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

20.

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

Cosby, Bill

21.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

25.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

26.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

27.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

28.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

30.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

31.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

33.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

40.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

45.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins