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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Baskins

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

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Eucharista Ward

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

18.

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

Miller, Harlan

19.

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

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

24.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Young, Brigham

26.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

41.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, German

43.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

44.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

45.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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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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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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

49.

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

Irving, Washington