Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Halen

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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

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

Smalley, Gary

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

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Elizabeth I

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

29.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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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

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Hull, Raymond

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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