Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Byron, Lord

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

14.

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

15.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

18.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

19.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

20.

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

Halen

21.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

22.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Winters, Shelley

26.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

27.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

28.

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

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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

Wilder, Thornton

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

43.

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

Mead, Margaret

44.

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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

46.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

47.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

48.

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

Coward, Noel

49.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

50.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman