Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Irving, Washington

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Young, Brigham

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

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

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Murray, Joe

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

46.

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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

48.

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

Kinison, Sam

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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