Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

10.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

22.

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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Landers, Ann

29.

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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Proverb

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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

38.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

44.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

48.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

49.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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