Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

- Vass, Susan

Best Quotes about Marriage

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bundy, Peg

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Helen Rowland

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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

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

Murray, Joe

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

Hitopadesa

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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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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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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