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

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

16.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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.

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

20.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

Heine, Heinrich

22.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

26.

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

27.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

Mickey Rooney

31.

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

Murray, Joe

32.

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

Victoria, Queen

33.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

34.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

35.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

37.

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

Rooney, Mickey

38.

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

Updike, John

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

Penn, William

40.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

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

Proverb, German

43.

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

44.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

45.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

47.

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

Connolly, Cyril

48.

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

Rita Rudner

49.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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