Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

- Nelms, Cynthia

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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.

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

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

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

10.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Baskins

12.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smalley, Gary

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Vass, Susan

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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