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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Knowles, F. M.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

Samuel, Herbert

13.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

15.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Murray, Joe

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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

18.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

29.

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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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

31.

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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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Mae West

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

47.

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 mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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