Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

- Hunt, Morton

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Proverb, German

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Hunt, Morton

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

10.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

14.

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

Jong, Erica

15.

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

Mead, Margaret

16.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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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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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

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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

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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

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

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

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

Peter Blake

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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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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

36.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De