Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

Landers, Ann

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Miller, Harlan

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

10.

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

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mae West

13.

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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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

Rooney, Mickey

18.

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

Sunday, Billy

19.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

20.

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

Peter Blake

21.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

22.

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

23.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

28.

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

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

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

31.

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

Irving, Washington

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Harrison, Jane

35.

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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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

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

Congreve, William

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

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

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

45.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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