Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Kinison, Sam

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

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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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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Hitopadesa

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

Vass, Susan

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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Coward, Noel

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

38.

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

39.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rita Rudner

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril