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

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

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

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

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

Murray, Joe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Eliot, George

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

38.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hull, Raymond

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

49.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis