Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pearl Buck

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

18.

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

Winters, Shelley

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Elizabeth I

28.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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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 happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Byron, Lord

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

50.

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