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

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

Lennon, John

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

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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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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