Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Graham, James

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

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

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

Mae West

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

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

Hull, Raymond

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Ruckett

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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

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

25.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

27.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

32.

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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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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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

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

Alexander, Shana

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Mickey Rooney

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Jong, Erica

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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