Motivational Quotes

Marriage

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Marriage

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Hull, Raymond

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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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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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

21.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Baum, Vicki

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Coward, Noel

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Dave Meurer

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Helen Rowland

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone 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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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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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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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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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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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