Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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

Baskins

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Byron, Lord

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

11.

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. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Eucharista Ward

25.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

28.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

29.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

31.

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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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

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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