Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Barrymore, John

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

10.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

15.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

20.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

25.

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

Rudner, Rita

26.

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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

28.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

29.

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

30.

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

Mickey Rooney

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

32.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

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

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

36.

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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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

42.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis