Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Marriage

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Rooney, Mickey

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

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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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Murray, Joe

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

Helen Rowland

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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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 day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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.