Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

- Willis, Bruce

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Hull, Raymond

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Winters, Shelley

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

12.

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

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Novalis

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Duncan, Isadora

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

42.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.