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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Marx, Groucho

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

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

18.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

19.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

20.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

21.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

22.

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

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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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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

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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