Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

11.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

15.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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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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

18.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

19.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prior, Matthew

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

31.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

32.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

33.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Elizabeth I

35.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

41.

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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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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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

45.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

49.

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

Mae West

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.