Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Graham, James

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

10.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

11.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bundy, Peg

16.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

17.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

21.

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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

23.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ford, Richard

27.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

28.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

29.

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

30.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

34.

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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Murray, Joe

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

40.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

43.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

44.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.