Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

10.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

11.

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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Baskins

14.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

17.

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

Novalis

18.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

24.

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

25.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

26.

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

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

34.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Vass, Susan

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

45.

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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis