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

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Smalley, Gary

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

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

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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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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Mead, Margaret

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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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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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Updike, John

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Miller, Harlan

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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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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Kauffman, Max