Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

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

Bush, Barbara

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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 two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lawana Blackwell

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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

25.

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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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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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

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

Congreve, William

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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

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

35.

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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

42.

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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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