Motivational Quotes

Marriage

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

William Shakespeare

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis