Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

- Bunker, Archie

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Winters, Shelley

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

10.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

11.

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

Wilder, Thornton

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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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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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Skelton, Red

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

38.

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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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 like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Pearl Buck

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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