Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Baum, Vicki

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Kinison, Sam

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Halen

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Vries, Peter De

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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