Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dave Meurer

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Mickey Rooney

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

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

Harrison, Jane

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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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.

12.

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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

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

Jong, Erica

18.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Ford, Richard

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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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

24.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

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

Prior, Matthew

28.

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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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

31.

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

Coward, Noel

32.

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

Baum, Vicki

33.

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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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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