Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Graham, James

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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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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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Murray, Joe

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

Proverb, German

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

Hitopadesa

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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