Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

18.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Novalis

25.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

27.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

29.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

30.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

31.

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

Graham, James

32.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

33.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

35.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Marx, Groucho

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

46.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette