Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Marriage

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Brigham

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

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

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Carson, Johnny

11.

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

12.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Hitopadesa

18.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

Rudner, Rita

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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

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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

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

29.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

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

31.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Myers, Cecil

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Moliere

45.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Gandhi, Mahatma