Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Lennon, John

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

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

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Peter Blake

12.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

20.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

21.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

22.

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

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

Hitopadesa

24.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

26.

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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

33.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

34.

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

Kinison, Sam

35.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

36.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

37.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

38.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

41.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

42.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

43.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

44.

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

Marx, Groucho

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

48.

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

49.

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

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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