Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Mickey Rooney

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb

10.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

12.

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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

21.

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

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Winters, Shelley

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Congreve, William

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

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

Skelton, Red

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

William Shakespeare

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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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