Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Kauffman, Max

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Eliot, George

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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 tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Dave Meurer

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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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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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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

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

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Byron, Lord

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur