Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Andre Maurois

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Thomason, Pauline

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Lennon, John

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea