Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Rita Rudner

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Murray, Joe

11.

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

Peter Blake

12.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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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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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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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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

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

Byron, Lord

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Harrison, Jane

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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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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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

32.

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

Smalley, Gary

34.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

35.

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

Victoria, Queen

36.

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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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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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

42.

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

Eliot, George

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

45.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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