Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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

Cosby, Bill

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Congreve, William

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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

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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 intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mead, Margaret

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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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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.

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Baskins

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Balzac, Honore De

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat