Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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

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

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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

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

Skelton, Red

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Will Rogers

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Byron, Lord

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Coward, Noel