Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Helen Rowland

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Rita Rudner

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

Rudner, Rita

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

11.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Key, Ellen

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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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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

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Myers, Cecil

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Allen, Woody

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

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

38.

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

39.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea