Motivational Quotes

Marriage

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Ruckett

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

Ford, Richard

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

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

Winters, Shelley

10.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

11.

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

12.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

13.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

14.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

16.

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

17.

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

Marx, Groucho

18.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

23.

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

24.

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

Penn, William

25.

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

Harrison, Jane

26.

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

27.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

28.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Maurois, Andre

30.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

34.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

35.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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

Coward, Noel

37.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

38.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

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

Wilson, Earl

42.

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.

43.

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

Victoria, Queen

44.

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

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Bennett, Jill

46.

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

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

48.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

49.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De