Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Skelton, Red

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

11.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

17.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

19.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

20.

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

Skelton, Red

21.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

22.

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

Marx, Groucho

23.

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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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

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

Andre Maurois

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

Mae West

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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

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

31.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

32.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

33.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

34.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

35.

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

36.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

37.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Dave Meurer

49.

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

Cosby, Bill

50.

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