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

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Lennon, John

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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

11.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

16.

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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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

18.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Chopin, Daniel

20.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

25.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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.

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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

30.

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

Penn, William

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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

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

35.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

41.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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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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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

47.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

48.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De