Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb

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

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Prior, Matthew

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

William Shakespeare

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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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.

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Young, Brigham

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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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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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

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

Eucharista Ward

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.