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

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Jong, Erica

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

29.

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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Vass, Susan

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

Helen Rowland

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

West, Mae

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb

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

Bundy, Peg

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Barrymore, John

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

49.

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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates