Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Congreve, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Winters, Shelley

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

10.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Rita Rudner

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Victoria, Queen

24.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Clarke, W. A.

34.

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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Samuel, Herbert

39.

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

Eucharista Ward

40.

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

Elizabeth I

41.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Marx, Groucho

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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