Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Vass, Susan

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Harrison, Jane

10.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

11.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

22.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

29.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Miller, Harlan

31.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Murray, Joe

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Sondheim, Stephen

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

47.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hitopadesa

49.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry