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

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Ford, Richard

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Peter Blake

11.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilson, Earl

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

31.

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

Vass, Susan

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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

33.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hitopadesa

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

42.

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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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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.

46.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

47.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

48.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Rita Rudner

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive