Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hesiod

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

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Dave Meurer

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Halen

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

Lennon, John

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Vries, Peter De

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Bundy, Peg

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Congreve, William

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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

West, Mae

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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!