Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

11.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

12.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Bible

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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 is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Rita Rudner

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Ford, Richard

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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

48.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.