Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Kinison, Sam

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Bible

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

11.

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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Eucharista Ward

15.

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 lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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

18.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

24.

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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

27.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

29.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

31.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

34.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Graham, James

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Murray, Joe

40.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

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

43.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus