Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Myers, Cecil

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

12.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Victoria, Queen

14.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

15.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Baskins

18.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

20.

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

Nick Faldo

21.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Rowland, Helen

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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

26.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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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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

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

33.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

34.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

40.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

45.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

48.

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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich