Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Jong, Erica

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

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

10.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

11.

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

Chopin, Daniel

13.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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

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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.

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

25.

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

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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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

28.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

29.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

30.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

31.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

40.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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