Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Nick Faldo

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

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Luther, Martin

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

21.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

25.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Proverb

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Baskins

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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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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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