Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lennon, John

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Skelton, Red

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

21.

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

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Rita Rudner

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Hitopadesa

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hitopadesa

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

43.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hesiod