Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Best Quotes about Marriage

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Andre Maurois

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

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Bush, Barbara

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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 the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Byron, Lord

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

William Shakespeare

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Sunday, Billy

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Jong, Erica

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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