Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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.

Landers, Ann

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

Kauffman, Max

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Mead, Margaret

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.