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

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

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

17.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Byron, Lord

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Vries, Peter De

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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 was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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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