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

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Vries, Peter De

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Penn, William

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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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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

20.

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.

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

Young, Brigham

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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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

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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

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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

Ford, Richard

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Cosby, Bill

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Coward, Noel

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Mead, Margaret

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Rieux, Madame De