Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

- Congreve, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Knowles, F. M.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clarke, W. A.

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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.

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

19.

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

20.

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

Novalis

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Kathleen Norris

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

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Wilson, Earl

35.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helen Rowland

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.