Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Rita Rudner

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Hesiod

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

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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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 isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

18.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb

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

Duncan, Isadora

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

25.

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

Nick Faldo

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

27.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

29.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Victoria, Queen

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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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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