Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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.

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

Myers, Cecil

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

10.

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

Vries, Peter De

11.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

12.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

19.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

26.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

29.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

30.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

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

Wilder, Thornton

32.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

34.

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

Moliere

35.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

36.

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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

39.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

40.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

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

Proverb, Scottish

42.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

43.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

44.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

45.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

46.

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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

49.

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

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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