Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Mae West

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Asquith, Margot

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.