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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Key, Ellen

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Jong, Erica

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Proverb

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Rita Rudner

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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

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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 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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Winters, Shelley