Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

Young, Brigham

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Will Rogers

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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.

10.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

11.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

12.

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

13.

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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

16.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

18.

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

Clarke, W. A.

19.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

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 little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

26.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

27.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

28.

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

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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

30.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

33.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

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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

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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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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.