Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Wilde, Oscar

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

10.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

14.

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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

16.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

17.

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

18.

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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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

20.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

25.

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

Clarke, W. A.

26.

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

Myers, Cecil

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

33.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

34.

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

35.

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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Baum, Vicki

42.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

45.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

46.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Congreve, William

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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