Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Knowles, F. M.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Rowland, Helen

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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.

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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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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

29.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

32.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

38.

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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

40.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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