Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

11.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

18.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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

32.

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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baskins

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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.

50.

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

Proverb, Scottish