Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

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

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

West, Mae

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter Blake

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Will Rogers

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Wycherley, William

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Congreve, William

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Barrymore, John

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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 a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward