Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Rita Rudner

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Helen Rowland

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Hubbard, Elbert