Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I hate work. That's why I got married.

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Miller, Harlan

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

William Shakespeare

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

William Shakespeare

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Eliot, George

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Rita Rudner

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

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

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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 would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

45.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Hull, Raymond

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Penn, William