Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Will Rogers

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bundy, Peg

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin