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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

Byron, Lord

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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 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

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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

49.

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

Elizabeth I

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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.