Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Duncan, Isadora

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Myers, Cecil

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

21.

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

22.

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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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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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

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

42.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, German

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mead, Margaret

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther