Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

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

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

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

Ruckett

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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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

Bible

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Byron, Lord

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose