Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

- Fox, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Helen Rowland

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

Vries, Peter De

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

10.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

11.

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

12.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Kathleen Norris

21.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

23.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

24.

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

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

26.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

27.

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

28.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

31.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

33.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

36.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

38.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

39.

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

Clarke, W. A.

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

43.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

44.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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