Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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.

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

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Wilder, Thornton

10.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Proverb

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

Bennett, Jill

20.

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

21.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

24.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Skelton, Red

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

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

31.

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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

33.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

40.

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

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

44.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

45.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Mickey Rooney

49.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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