Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

- Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Baskins

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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.

Ann Landers

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Farquhar, George

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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.

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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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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.