Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Hull, Raymond

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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

10.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

21.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

24.

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

25.

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

Farquhar, George

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

27.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

28.

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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Ruckett

33.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

34.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

35.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

36.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

49.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy