Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

- Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Skelton, Red

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Peter Blake

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

13.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

14.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Murray, Joe

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

18.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

19.

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

20.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

21.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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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 a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

25.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

27.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

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

31.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

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 is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Hitopadesa

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Mae West

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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

40.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

41.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

Moliere

44.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

48.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

50.

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