Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

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

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

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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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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 world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Kinison, Sam

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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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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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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret