Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

Murray, Joe

11.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

12.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Spencer, Herbert

14.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.

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

Vass, Susan

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

17.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

20.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

21.

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

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

Sunday, Billy

24.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

25.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Penn, William

29.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

30.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

31.

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

32.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

33.

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

Myers, Cecil

34.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

35.

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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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

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Chopin, Daniel

40.

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

Kinison, Sam

41.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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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

45.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

46.

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

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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

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.