Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

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 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

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

Rita Rudner

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Penn, William

13.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

Nick Faldo

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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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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

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

19.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

23.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

25.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

26.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

31.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

32.

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

Halen

33.

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

34.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

36.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Mae West

41.

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

42.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

43.

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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Coward, Noel

47.

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

Rowland, Helen

48.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren