Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Grizzard, Lewis

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Will Rogers

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Elizabeth I

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

Jong, Erica

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Skelton, Red

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Byron, Lord

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

Wycherley, William

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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Rieux, Madame De

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Irving, Washington

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Proverb

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki