Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Mae West

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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.

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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

11.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Scottish

14.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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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

18.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

19.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Key, Ellen

21.

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

Moliere

22.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

23.

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

Vass, Susan

24.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

25.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

26.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

29.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

30.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

31.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

32.

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

33.

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

Duncan, Isadora

34.

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

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Mickey Rooney

40.

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

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

43.

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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.