Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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 in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Graham, James

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Proverb

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Hesiod

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Vass, Susan

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

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre