Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Eucharista Ward

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

11.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Hull, Raymond

13.

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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

16.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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 ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

28.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Knowles, F. M.

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

40.

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

Farquhar, George

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

44.

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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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

49.

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

West, Mae

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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