Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

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

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

Bennett, Jill

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Marx, Groucho

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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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 girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Irving, Washington

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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.

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Baskins

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John