Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Penn, William

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

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

12.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Marx, Groucho

16.

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

Prior, Matthew

17.

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

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

20.

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

21.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

25.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

27.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

28.

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

29.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

30.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

31.

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

32.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

34.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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

39.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

40.

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

41.

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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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.

45.

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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

47.

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

Balzac, Honore De

48.

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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

50.

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