Motivational Quotes

Marriage

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Marriage

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

10.

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

Smalley, Gary

11.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

12.

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

Proverb

13.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

14.

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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

20.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

21.

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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

23.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Byron, Lord

26.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

28.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

29.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

33.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

39.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

42.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.