Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mickey Rooney

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mae West

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

Miller, Harlan

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

15.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Andre Maurois

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Sunday, Billy

27.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

28.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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

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

Graham, James

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

Carson, Johnny

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Prior, Matthew

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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.

Landers, Ann

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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