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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Graham, James

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mae West

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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]

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Rita Rudner

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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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

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

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