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May these quotes about Marriages inspire and motivate you.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
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
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -
a practice which is still continued.
- Helen Rowland
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water.
After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
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