Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sunday, Billy

18.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

19.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

20.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Hull, Raymond

22.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

23.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Earl

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Byron, Lord

29.

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

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

Bible

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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.

33.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

35.

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

36.

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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Moliere

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Spencer, Herbert

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Peter Blake

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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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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

49.

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

Mead, Margaret

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles