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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Jong, Erica

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

11.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

12.

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Sunday, Billy

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

18.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

20.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

22.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

33.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

34.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Penn, William

40.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

41.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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

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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

44.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

45.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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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