Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vass, Susan

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

10.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

12.

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

Proverb

13.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Cosby, Bill

17.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

18.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Bennett, Jill

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Eucharista Ward

22.

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

Key, Ellen

23.

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

Pancoast, Mal

24.

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

Graham, James

25.

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

Miller, Harlan

26.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

27.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

28.

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

West, Mae

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

31.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

34.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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

38.

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

Chopin, Daniel

39.

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.

40.

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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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

42.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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

44.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare