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

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

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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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.

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

Proverb, Scottish

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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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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