Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Spanish

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Halen

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Ford, Richard

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Penn, William

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz