Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Samuel Johnson

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

10.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

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

12.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

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

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

18.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

21.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

22.

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

Coward, Noel

23.

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

Winters, Shelley

24.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

25.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

30.

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

Mae West

31.

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

32.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

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

34.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

35.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

40.

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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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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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

43.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

44.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.