Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Billings, Josh

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Jong, Erica

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.