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

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

Proverb

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hesiod

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Miller, Harlan

15.

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

Coward, Noel

16.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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

21.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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

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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

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

Bible

25.

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

Bundy, Peg

26.

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

27.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

28.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

29.

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

30.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Vries, Peter De

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

34.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

35.

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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Jong, Erica

43.

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

44.

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

Vries, Peter De

45.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

46.

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

49.

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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin