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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

13.

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

Key, Ellen

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

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

Moliere

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

Bennett, Jill

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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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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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 you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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

Andre Maurois

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

42.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Eliot, George

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.