Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Eucharista Ward

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Halen

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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 an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Victoria, Queen

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

48.

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

Lennon, John

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