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

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

Graham, James

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Helen Rowland

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

10.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

11.

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

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Proverb

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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

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

Andre Maurois

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

19.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Proverb

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

42.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

43.

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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

46.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Rita Rudner

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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 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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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