Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wilder, Thornton

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

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

Dave Meurer

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

17.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Murray, Joe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Maurois, Andre

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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.