Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

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

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hull, Raymond

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sunday, Billy

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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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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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Murray, Joe

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