Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

Landers, Ann

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Marx, Groucho

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

24.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

25.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Key, Ellen

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

34.

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

Ruckett

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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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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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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

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

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

Coward, Noel

41.

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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Congreve, William