Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rooney, Mickey

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Farquhar, George

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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

11.

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Kathleen Norris

13.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Eliot, George

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

William Shakespeare

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Moliere

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One man's folly is another man's wife.