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

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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

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

Bible

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Young, Brigham

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

Sunday, Billy

11.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

13.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

18.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

19.

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

Cosby, Bill

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

25.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

29.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

31.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Helen Rowland

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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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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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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

43.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

44.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

45.

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

Chopin, Daniel

46.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

47.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

48.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

49.

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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.