Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

- Thomason, Pauline

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Congreve, William

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Eliot, George

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

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Rowland, Helen

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Hesiod

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Proverb

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Balzac, Honore 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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.