Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Jong, Erica

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

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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 must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Murray, Joe

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hitopadesa

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Kauffman, Max

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