Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

- Myers, Cecil

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Chatterton, Thomas

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Nick Faldo

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Jong, Erica

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

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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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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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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