Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

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

Congreve, William

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Prior, Matthew

10.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

11.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Rowland, Helen

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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

24.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

27.

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

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Ford, Richard

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

Updike, John

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

Byron, Lord

46.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus