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)

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

Harrison, Jane

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

11.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

12.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

13.

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

Rieux, Madame De

14.

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

15.

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

Bennett, Jill

17.

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

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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

24.

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

Vass, Susan

25.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Bundy, Peg

27.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

28.

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

Proverb

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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

30.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

32.

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

Wycherley, William

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

38.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

42.

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

44.

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

46.

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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur