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

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

10.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

11.

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

Kauffman, Max

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

Knowles, F. M.

15.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

16.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

21.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

22.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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

25.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

28.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Helen Rowland

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

40.

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

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

48.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Vries, Peter De