Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Mickey Rooney

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Vries, Peter De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Coward, Noel

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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

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Congreve, William

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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