Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mencken, H. L.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mae West

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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

31.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

32.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Congreve, William

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

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