Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Marriage

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Grizzard, Lewis

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Maurois, Andre

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

18.

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

19.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Proverb

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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.

Ann Landers

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone 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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara