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

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

West, Mae

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

Smalley, Gary

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

11.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Kinison, Sam

18.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

25.

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

Winters, Shelley

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

32.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Cosby, Bill

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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.