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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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

Vries, Peter De

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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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

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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

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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

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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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 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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Irving, Washington

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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