Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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

11.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

12.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

13.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

14.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

15.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

19.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

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.

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

Mickey Rooney

23.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

24.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

25.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

26.

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

Duncan, Isadora

27.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

28.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

31.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

32.

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

33.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

34.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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.

36.

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

Coward, Noel

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.