Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Murray, Joe

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mead, Margaret

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

10.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

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

16.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Proverb

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

Mickey Rooney

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

24.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

25.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

26.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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

Irving, Washington

30.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

32.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

35.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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

38.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

40.

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

Baum, Vicki

41.

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

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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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

50.

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

Marx, Groucho