Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Byron, Lord

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Skelton, Red

11.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

24.

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

Rita Rudner

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Allen, Woody

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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Updike, John

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

Luther, Martin

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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