Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Updike, John

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Cosby, Bill

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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

Winters, Shelley

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

25.

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

Rita Rudner

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.