Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

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

Alexander, Shana

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Dave Meurer

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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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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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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Myers, Cecil

18.

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

Baum, Vicki

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rowland, Helen

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Andre Maurois

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

47.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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