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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Rooney, Mickey

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

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

11.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

12.

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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Rita Rudner

21.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

25.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Vries, Peter De

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

Elizabeth I

43.

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

Wilder, Thornton

44.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

48.

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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

50.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette