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

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

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

Mae West

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Young, Brigham

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Nick Faldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Rita Rudner

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Proverb

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel, Herbert

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marx, Groucho

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von