Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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.

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.

Fielding, Henry

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Thomason, Pauline

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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

10.

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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

12.

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

Eliot, George

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

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

West, Mae

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

36.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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

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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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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Baskins

45.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Novalis

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma