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

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Murray, Joe

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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

11.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

12.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Nick Faldo

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Hitopadesa

19.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

25.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

27.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

28.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

29.

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

Hesiod

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

34.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Elizabeth I

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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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

49.

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

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

Smalley, Gary