Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Lennon, John

10.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

17.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

22.

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

Victoria, Queen

23.

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

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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.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

26.

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

Rowland, Helen

27.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

28.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

31.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

32.

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

33.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

Wilder, Thornton

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

39.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

40.

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

Chopin, Daniel

41.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

46.

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

Prior, Matthew

47.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

50.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce