Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

- Rooney, Mickey

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lennon, John

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

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

12.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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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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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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Vass, Susan

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

Halen

31.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

34.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Graham, James

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rita Rudner

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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.

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Thomason, Pauline

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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

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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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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare