Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Cosby, Bill

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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 mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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.

Ann Landers

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Hesiod

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Nick Faldo