Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Young, Brigham

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

11.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

12.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Nick Faldo

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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 should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

19.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

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.

21.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Marx, Groucho

26.

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

Smalley, Gary

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

35.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Knowles, F. M.

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.