Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Marriage

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 should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Murray, Joe

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

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

10.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

11.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

12.

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

Nick Faldo

13.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Winters, Shelley

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

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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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Bundy, Peg

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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.

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

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

32.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

33.

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

Hesiod

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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

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

39.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

48.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

50.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques