Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Pearl Buck

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Jong, Erica

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Peter Blake

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

10.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

13.

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

14.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

16.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

17.

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

Coward, Noel

18.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

19.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

21.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Murray, Joe

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Jong, Erica

27.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

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

Kinison, Sam

30.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

34.

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

35.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Byron, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Eucharista Ward

40.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

41.

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.

Landers, Ann

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

43.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

44.

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

Winters, Shelley

45.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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