Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Coward, Noel

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb, Scottish

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Graham, James

12.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Winters, Shelley

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

16.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

17.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

18.

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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Nelms, Cynthia

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

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

Elizabeth I

23.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Byron, Lord

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

29.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

30.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

31.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

36.

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

Balzac, Honore De

37.

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

Winters, Shelley

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

39.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

40.

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

41.

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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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.

46.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

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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