Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Peter Blake

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Bible

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Halen

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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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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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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Winters, Shelley

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Kinison, Sam

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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. 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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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.