Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vass, Susan

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Proverb, Scottish

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Chopin, Daniel

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

10.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

11.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

12.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

17.

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

Rieux, Madame De

18.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

22.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

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

Skelton, Red

24.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

30.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

31.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

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

Bennett, Jill

33.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

34.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Farquhar, George

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

Baskins

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

40.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

42.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

43.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

44.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

45.

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

46.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Congreve, William

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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]

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

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