Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Chatterton, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

13.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

17.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

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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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

23.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

24.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

28.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

29.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

Murray, Joe

33.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Diller, Phyllis

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.