Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Kathleen Norris

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

10.

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

Bible

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

15.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

19.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Baskins

26.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

27.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

34.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

35.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Maurois, Andre

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Proverb

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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.