Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Elizabeth I

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

Rowland, Helen

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

11.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

12.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Vries, Peter De

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Landers, Ann

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

32.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Mead, Margaret

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Byron, Lord

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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