Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

William Shakespeare

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Myers, Cecil

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Helen Rowland

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Eliot, George

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

19.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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 is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Winters, Shelley

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

39.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques