Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

- Alexander, Shana

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

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

Carson, Johnny

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

11.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Bundy, Peg

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Lennon, John

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

Pearl Buck

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Penn, William

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Andre Maurois

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Bible

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Dave Meurer