Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Proverb

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Graham, James

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

39.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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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

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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

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Farquhar, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.