Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Wycherley, William

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Proverb

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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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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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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Rita Rudner

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

West, Mae

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eucharista Ward

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Murray, Joe

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis