Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Miller, Harlan

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

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

10.

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

Congreve, William

11.

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

12.

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

Murray, Joe

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

15.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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.

18.

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

19.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Rooney, Mickey

21.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

23.

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

Victoria, Queen

24.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

25.

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

26.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

33.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

34.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

35.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

36.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

Pancoast, Mal

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

40.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

41.

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

42.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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

44.

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

Bennett, Jill

45.

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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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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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

48.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

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

Samuel, Herbert

50.

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

Irving, Washington