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

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kathleen Norris

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

11.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

15.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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

21.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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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

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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

Alexander, Shana

29.

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

30.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

31.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

32.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kinison, Sam

37.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

42.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Congreve, William

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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