Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rudner, Rita

Best Quotes about Marriage

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Connolly, Cyril

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Wycherley, William

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

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Rita Rudner

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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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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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Halen

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Hitopadesa

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew