Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Luther, Martin

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nelms, Cynthia

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

12.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

13.

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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

21.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

26.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

29.

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

Rita Rudner

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Knowles, F. M.

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

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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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

43.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

45.

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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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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