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

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Young, Brigham

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Diller, Phyllis

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

10.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

11.

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

12.

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

Eucharista Ward

13.

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

14.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Winters, Shelley

23.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vass, Susan

27.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

28.

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

29.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Maurois, Andre

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

32.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

33.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Coward, Noel

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

Rieux, Madame De

40.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Proverb

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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

44.

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

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

Bible

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh