Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Penn, William

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

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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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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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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Knowles, F. M.

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Murray, Joe

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

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