Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

William Shakespeare

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

24.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, German

31.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

36.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Hitopadesa

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

48.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar