Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hesiod

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Lennon, John

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

Helen Rowland

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter Blake

11.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Rita Rudner

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Rudner, Rita

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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

31.

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 will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.