Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Marriage

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Balzac, Honore De

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

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

10.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

11.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Hitopadesa

16.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Victoria, Queen

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

28.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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

31.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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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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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

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

40.

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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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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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George