Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

Baskins

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

Maurois, Andre

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Congreve, William

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

10.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Coward, Noel

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Nelms, Cynthia

15.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Rooney, Mickey

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

21.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

24.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

26.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

29.

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

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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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

35.

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

36.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

37.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

38.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

39.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

Vries, Peter De

41.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

43.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Wilder, Thornton

46.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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