Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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.

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

Murray, Joe

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

10.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

11.

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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

15.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Hitopadesa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

20.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Sunday, Billy

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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

Nick Faldo

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

Thomason, Pauline

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

28.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

29.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

Moliere

32.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

33.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

34.

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.

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

36.

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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

39.

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

Rudner, Rita

40.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur