Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Alexander, Shana

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

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Winters, Shelley

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Updike, John

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

Congreve, William

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Skelton, Red

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Byron, Lord

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.