Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

Halen

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Winters, Shelley

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Congreve, William