Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Andre Maurois

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Marx, Groucho

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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