Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nelms, Cynthia

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Mignon McLaughlin

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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.

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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Coward, Noel

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Moliere

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hesiod

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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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

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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