Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baskins

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

West, Mae

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

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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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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

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Proverb

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.