Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Novalis

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Eliot, George

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Heine, Heinrich

31.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

32.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hesiod

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

Kathleen Norris

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Marx, Groucho