Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Baskins

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

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

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

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

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

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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Rita Rudner

18.

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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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

20.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

29.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Elizabeth I

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Will Rogers

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thomason, Pauline

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.