Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Harrison, Jane

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Moliere

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

25.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Byron, Lord

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

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Marx, Groucho

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

39.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Vries, Peter De

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