Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baskins

Best Quotes about Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

11.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Hesiod

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

Kinison, Sam

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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

17.

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

Lennon, John

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

27.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

29.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

32.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

39.

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

Maurois, Andre

40.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Rita Rudner

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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

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

46.

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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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John