Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Mickey Rooney

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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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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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Moliere

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

Knowles, F. M.

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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 never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Mae West

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Helen Rowland

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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

Myers, Cecil

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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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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