Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Baskins

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Elizabeth I

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

West, Mae

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Hitopadesa

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Victoria, Queen

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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]

Bible

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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

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma