Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Knowles, F. M.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Baum, Vicki

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

10.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

11.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

12.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

13.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

18.

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

Myers, Cecil

19.

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

20.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

25.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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.

Landers, Ann

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

32.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

33.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

34.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

35.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Moliere

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

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

Jong, Erica

41.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

42.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

43.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

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

Maurois, Andre

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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