Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

10.

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

11.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

13.

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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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.

Landers, Ann

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

20.

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

Baskins

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

Ruckett

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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 Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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 have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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