Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Cosby, Bill

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Hitopadesa

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

Marx, Groucho

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

10.

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

Proverb

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

Mae West

12.

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

Winters, Shelley

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

15.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

21.

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.

Ann Landers

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

26.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

27.

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

28.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

29.

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.

30.

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 is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

34.

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

Rieux, Madame De

35.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Peter Blake

40.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

50.

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