Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Landers, Ann

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

10.

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

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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

Victoria, Queen

14.

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

Congreve, William

15.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

16.

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

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

19.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

25.

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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Kinison, Sam

28.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

29.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

30.

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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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

32.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

33.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

39.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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

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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

46.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

47.

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

Murray, Joe

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

50.

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