Quotes about marriage

"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."

Martineau, Harriet on marriage   

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

Marx, Groucho on marriage
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"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."

Mason, Jackie on marriage   

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

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."

Maurois, Andre on marriage   

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"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 on marriage
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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. on marriage   

"Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed."

Mcginley, Phyllis on marriage   

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

Mcginley, Phyllis on marriage   

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

McLaughlin, Mignon on marriage
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"I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person."

Mead, Margaret on marriage   

"The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations."

Mead, Margaret on marriage   

"If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself."

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in."

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

Miller, Harlan on marriage   

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

Moliere on marriage   

"Love is often the fruit of marriage."

Moliere on marriage   

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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 on marriage   

"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 on marriage   

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage
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"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage   

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

Murdoch, Iris on marriage
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"Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps."

Murray, Joe on marriage   

"Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God."

Myers, Cecil on marriage
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"There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it."

Nash, Ogden on marriage   

"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 on marriage
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"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open."

Nash, Ogden on marriage   

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

Nelms, Cynthia on marriage   

"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 on marriage   

"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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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 on marriage   

"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general."

Novalis on marriage
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"Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another."

Ovid on marriage   

"If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal."

Ovid on marriage   

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

Pancoast, Mal on marriage   

"In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body."

Penn, William on marriage
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"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 on marriage