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

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Connolly, Cyril

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

11.

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

Proverb

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rita Rudner

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Irving, Washington

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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.

Socrates

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Halen

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

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

Baskins

44.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Victoria, Queen

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William