Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Congreve, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Graham, James

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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.

Byron, Lord

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

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Winters, Shelley

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Skelton, Red

33.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

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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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

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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.

38.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Mae West

43.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose