Motivational Quotes

Marriage

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Rooney, Mickey

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Hesiod

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Nick Faldo

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

Sunday, Billy

18.

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

19.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

21.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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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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

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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

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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 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 like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

41.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard