Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Pearl Buck

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Billings, Josh

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Skelton, Red

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Farquhar, George

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

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Lennon, John

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Kathleen Norris

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Marx, Groucho

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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.