Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

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

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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.

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Luther, Martin

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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