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

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Wycherley, William

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Wilder, Thornton

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

10.

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

Bundy, Peg

11.

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

Congreve, William

12.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nick Faldo

15.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Hull, Raymond

18.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

19.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

20.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hitopadesa

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

32.

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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

35.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

37.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

38.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Rita Rudner

40.

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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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