Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Jong, Erica

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Will Rogers

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

Landers, Ann