Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Elizabeth I

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

12.

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 a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maurois, Andre

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baskins

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Landers, Ann

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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

33.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Marx, Groucho

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Lennon, John

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

Key, Ellen

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Hull, Raymond

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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

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Proverb