Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Prior, Matthew

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Ford, Richard

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

Moliere

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cosby, Bill

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I married beneath me. All women do.