Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Halen

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

11.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Luther, Martin

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Miller, Harlan

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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Victoria, Queen

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

36.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Andre Maurois

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