Motivational Quotes

Marriage

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

- Miller, Dennis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Chatterton, Thomas

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

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

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Bundy, Peg

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel, Herbert

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Coward, Noel

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

28.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Jong, Erica

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

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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. 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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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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh