Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Hull, Raymond

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Allen, Woody

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

10.

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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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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

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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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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

39.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mickey Rooney

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