Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Rieux, Madame De

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Miller, Harlan

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

22.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

23.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

24.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

27.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

32.

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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

35.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Andre Maurois

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

Sunday, Billy

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Wilder, Thornton

42.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

43.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

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

Eliot, George

46.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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 like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward