Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Rowland, Helen

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

10.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

12.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

13.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

14.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

15.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

16.

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

Ford, Richard

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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

18.

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

Bundy, Peg

19.

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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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

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

22.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Dave Meurer

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

27.

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

Proverb

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

30.

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

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Farquhar, George

38.

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

39.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

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

Kathleen Norris

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

44.

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

Hesiod

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel