Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Murray, Joe

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Young, Brigham

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

10.

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

11.

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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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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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

Mae West

18.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bennett, Jill

32.

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

Vass, Susan

33.

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

34.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

37.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

42.

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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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