Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

10.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

Myers, Cecil

12.

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

13.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

14.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

17.

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

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

27.

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

Victoria, Queen

28.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

29.

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

Spencer, Herbert

30.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

31.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

32.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Sunday, Billy

36.

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

37.

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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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 must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

40.

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

Kauffman, Max

42.

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

43.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

44.

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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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 you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

47.

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

Chopin, Daniel

48.

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

Hull, Raymond

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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!