Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Sydney

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

10.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Baskins

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

Proverb

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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 marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

21.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

26.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

27.

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

28.

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

Baum, Vicki

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

32.

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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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

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

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

Skelton, Red

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Chopin, Daniel

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

42.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John