Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Murray, Joe

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Diller, Phyllis

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Hesiod

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

Byron, Lord

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

Byron, Lord

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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.

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Graham, James

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

Winters, Shelley

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia