Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Myers, Cecil

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Samuel, Herbert

28.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

31.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

33.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Alexander, Shana

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Victoria, Queen

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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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