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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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 like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

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

Balzac, Honore De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

24.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

29.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

30.

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

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

43.

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

44.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.