Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

10.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Prior, Matthew

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Key, Ellen

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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 world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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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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

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.