Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Knowles, F. M.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

10.

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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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

Myers, Cecil

19.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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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

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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.

28.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Balzac, Honore De

31.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Proverb

40.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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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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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.