Married Life Quotes

• 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

  Love, Funny, Life

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Anniversary, Being Happy

  "The Importance of Being Earnest". Revised Edition,

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• Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

  Jefferson Machamer

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Thinking

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• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

  John Selden

  Happiness, Happy, Marriage

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• If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Priorities, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Men, Design

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• To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Husband

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• Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Taken, Married

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• Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

  Mark Driscoll

  Children, Home, Years

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

  Thomas Sprat

  Married, Proportion, Trifles

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• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

  Ernestine Rose

  Successful, Wife, Suffering

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• Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Men, Understanding

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• Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

  Bill Gates

  Married, Life Is, My Time

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• In married life three is company and two none.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Three, Importance Of Being Earnest

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

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• Married life is absolutely brilliant.

  Ronnie Wood

  Brilliant, Married, Life Is

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• I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

  Jean Plaidy

  Writing, Ambition, Childhood

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Expectations

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Married, Life Is

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• As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

  Robert Breault

  Men, Wife, Cooking

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• Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Married, Dessert

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