Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

10.

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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

Moliere

15.

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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Bible

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

36.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Smalley, Gary