Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Myers, Cecil

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

12.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Mae West

17.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

18.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

31.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

34.

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

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Peter Blake

41.

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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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

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

45.

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

Carson, Johnny

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.