Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Elizabeth I

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Billings, Josh

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

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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]

Bible

17.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

20.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

24.

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

25.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Dave Meurer

32.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

33.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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.

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

44.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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