Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Murray, Joe

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Jong, Erica

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

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

Barrymore, John

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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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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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Vass, Susan

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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

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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

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

28.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

31.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Young, Brigham

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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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