Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rudner, Rita

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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.

Landers, Ann

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

10.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Rita Rudner

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hitopadesa

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb