Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bush, Barbara

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

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

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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Congreve, William

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

Baskins

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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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.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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