Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Luther, Martin

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

10.

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

Elizabeth I

11.

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

Wycherley, William

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

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

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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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

17.

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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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

19.

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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

21.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

22.

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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

29.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

30.

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

Ruckett

31.

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

Rita Rudner

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

33.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

34.

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

35.

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

Rudner, Rita

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Harlan

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

48.

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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Grizzard, Lewis