Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Baum, Vicki

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

10.

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

11.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

12.

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

13.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

15.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

16.

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

17.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

18.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

19.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

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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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

29.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

33.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

39.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

40.

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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

45.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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

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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Peter Blake