Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Dave Meurer

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Baskins

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

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

Murray, Joe

10.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Rudner, Rita

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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

14.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

15.

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

Smalley, Gary

17.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

18.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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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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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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

23.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

24.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

29.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

30.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

31.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

32.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

37.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

41.

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

Byron, Lord

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.