Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

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

Eliot, George

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

10.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

11.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

17.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Winters, Shelley

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Updike, John

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Hull, Raymond

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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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

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.