Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Irving, Washington

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Helen Rowland

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

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

Peter Blake

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Chopin, Daniel

11.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

12.

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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

14.

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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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

16.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

19.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

20.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

26.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Mead, Margaret

29.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

30.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

31.

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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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

40.

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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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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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