Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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

Billings, Josh

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Winters, Shelley

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

10.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

11.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Proverb, German

14.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Penn, William

16.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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 is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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

20.

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

21.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

West, Mae

27.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

28.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

29.

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

Duncan, Isadora

30.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

32.

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

33.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

36.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

38.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

39.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

40.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

41.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

William Shakespeare

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

45.

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

Vass, Susan

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