Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bennett, Jill

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

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

11.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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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

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Congreve, William

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

18.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

28.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

30.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

32.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

33.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

35.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

36.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

37.

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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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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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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