Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Dave Meurer

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.

Ann Landers

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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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

11.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Irving, Washington

14.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

15.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

16.

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

Maurois, Andre

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

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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

21.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

25.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

26.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Mae West

29.

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

30.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

34.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

35.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

48.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

49.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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]

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