Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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

Rita Rudner

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

10.

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

11.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

12.

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

Sunday, Billy

13.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

14.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

16.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

20.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

22.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

23.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

28.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

29.

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

Rieux, Madame De

30.

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

31.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

41.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Thomason, Pauline

44.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert