Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Diller, Phyllis

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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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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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

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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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

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

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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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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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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

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Sunday, Billy

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb

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

Clarke, W. A.

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, German

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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 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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Cosby, Bill