Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Congreve, William

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

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Myers, Cecil

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Mae West

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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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 man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Andre Maurois

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.