Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

Ruckett

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

12.

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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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Farquhar, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Ford, Richard

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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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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

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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