Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Mead, Margaret

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Miller, Harlan

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

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

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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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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

17.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

19.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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 sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

28.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

32.

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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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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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

39.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Murray, Joe

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

Wycherley, William

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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