Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eliot, George

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cosby, Bill

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Elizabeth I

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

24.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

William Shakespeare

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

34.

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.

35.

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

Sunday, Billy

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

38.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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.

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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

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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

46.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.