Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Wilder, Thornton

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

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

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Vries, Peter De

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Coward, Noel

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

16.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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

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

Wycherley, William

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Marx, Groucho

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Murray, Joe

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich