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

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

Balzac, Honore De

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maurois, Andre

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Baum, Vicki

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Lennon, John

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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

31.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Alexander, Shana

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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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