Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Duncan, Isadora

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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.

Landers, Ann

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Bennett, Jill

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kinison, Sam

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Allen, Woody

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

Rita Rudner

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

West, Mae

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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 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

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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

41.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Hesiod

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

Murray, Joe

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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

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