Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Eliot, George

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

18.

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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

22.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

23.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Dave Meurer

25.

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

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

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

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

35.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

39.

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

40.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

42.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

44.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

46.

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

47.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.