Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

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

10.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Mickey Rooney

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

West, Mae

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Mae West

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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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

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

Peter Blake

31.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Pearl Buck

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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