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

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Will Rogers

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

Winters, Shelley

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

18.

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

Graham, James

20.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Key, Ellen

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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

36.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

40.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Halen

42.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.