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

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Helen Rowland

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Eliot, George

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Cosby, Bill

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Proverb

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Prior, Matthew

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