Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Eliot, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Graham, James

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Halen

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Key, Ellen

11.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

14.

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

Baskins

15.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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.

17.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

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.

Ann Landers

19.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

21.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Wilder, Thornton

24.

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

25.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Vass, Susan

27.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

28.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

30.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

31.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

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

Kinison, Sam

33.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

35.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

36.

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

37.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

38.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

39.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Marx, Groucho

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

48.

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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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

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis