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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Byron, Lord

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Alexander, Shana

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

West, Mae

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

10.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

13.

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

Farquhar, George

14.

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

Ruckett

15.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

16.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

24.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

25.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

27.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

37.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

38.

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

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

40.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

41.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

46.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara