Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Byron, Lord

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

12.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

17.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

18.

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

Miller, Harlan

19.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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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

24.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

25.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

26.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

27.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

28.

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

Luther, Martin

30.

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

31.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

32.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Vries, Peter De

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

43.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

47.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham