Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Clarke, W. A.

Best Quotes about Marriage

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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

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

10.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

11.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Helen Rowland

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

Rita Rudner

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

27.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

28.

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

Halen

29.

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

Carson, Johnny

30.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

32.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

36.

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

Jong, Erica

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

40.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

41.

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

Sunday, Billy

42.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

46.

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

47.

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

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Rowland, Helen

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley