Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Murray, Joe

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jong, Erica

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Winters, Shelley

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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

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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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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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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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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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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 day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Bundy, Peg

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Allen, Woody

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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