Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Eliot, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Smalley, Gary

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

10.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

11.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

15.

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

16.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

18.

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

Rudner, Rita

19.

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

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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.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

23.

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

Novalis

24.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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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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'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

28.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

29.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

30.

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

31.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

34.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

35.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

39.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

40.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

42.

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

43.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

44.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

45.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.