Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Miller, Harlan

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Kathleen Norris

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Rowland, Helen

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

10.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

14.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

15.

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.

16.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

17.

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

Duncan, Isadora

18.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

19.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

20.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

Clarke, W. A.

24.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

25.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

34.

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

Elizabeth I

35.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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

38.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

39.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

40.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

41.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

42.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

43.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

44.

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

Byron, Lord

45.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

48.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.