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

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

Balzac, Honore De

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Eucharista Ward

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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