Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

12.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

14.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

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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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

17.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

18.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

19.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

20.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

21.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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

24.

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

Coward, Noel

25.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Baskins

30.

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

Murray, Joe

32.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

33.

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

34.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

35.

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

36.

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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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic