Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Cosby, Bill

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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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

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Wycherley, William

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Elizabeth I

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

Ann Landers

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Eliot, George

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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 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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Edith Wharton

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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia