Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Miller, Harlan

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

19.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

30.

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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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

40.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Moliere

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana