Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Vass, Susan

15.

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

Allen, Woody

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

18.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

19.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Bible

22.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

25.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

28.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

29.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

34.

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

35.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

36.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Thomason, Pauline

38.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wilder, Thornton

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

42.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

47.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

49.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

50.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max