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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Rita Rudner

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Eucharista Ward

12.

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

13.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Landers, Ann

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

24.

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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Elizabeth I

29.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

31.

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

Rieux, Madame De

32.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Young, Brigham

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

38.

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

39.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

40.

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

Connolly, Cyril