Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Irving, Washington

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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

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Baum, Vicki

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Luther, Martin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Nick Faldo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Hitopadesa

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Vries, Peter De

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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