Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Congreve, William

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Lennon, John

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

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

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

15.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

16.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

20.

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

Farquhar, George

21.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bible

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

27.

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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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

34.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

36.

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

Ruckett

37.

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

39.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

44.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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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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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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

49.

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.

Nash, Ogden

50.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De