Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Vass, Susan

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Samuel, Herbert

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Marx, Groucho

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh