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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Rieux, Madame De

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Jong, Erica

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

21.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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

25.

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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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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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

32.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Baum, Vicki

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

41.

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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mae West

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Barrymore, John

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen