Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hesiod

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

West, Mae

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Mae West

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Bible

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

40.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

43.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pancoast, Mal

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

47.

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

Harrison, Jane

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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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