Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Mae West

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Rita Rudner

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Barrymore, John

28.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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William Shakespeare

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

Murray, Joe

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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