Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

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

Proverb

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Rita Rudner

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Vries, Peter De

10.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

11.

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

12.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

13.

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

Hull, Raymond

14.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

18.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

19.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

22.

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

23.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

24.

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.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Prior, Matthew

32.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

41.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Halen

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik