Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

11.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

12.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

13.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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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

15.

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

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

Bennett, Jill

18.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

Kinison, Sam

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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

22.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Bundy, Peg

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

Winters, Shelley

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

43.

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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

45.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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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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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

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