Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Andre Maurois

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Chatterton, Thomas

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

10.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

11.

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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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

17.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

18.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

19.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

32.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

33.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

34.

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

35.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

36.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

37.

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

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

40.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

47.

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

Hitopadesa

48.

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

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.