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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

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

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Farquhar, George

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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

12.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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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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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Mencken, H. L.

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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 was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis