Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Winters, Shelley

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

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

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

Moliere

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

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

10.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

11.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

12.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

13.

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

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

25.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

26.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

28.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

29.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

42.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

46.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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.