Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Allen, Woody

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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 besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Skelton, Red

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Hitopadesa

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

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