Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Byron, Lord

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara 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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, 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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.