Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Coward, Noel

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murray, Joe

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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