Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb, Scottish

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Mencken, H. L.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

13.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

15.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

16.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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

18.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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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

25.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

26.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

28.

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

Knowles, F. M.

29.

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

Balzac, Honore De

30.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Rudner, Rita

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

37.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

45.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Dupuy, Alexis