Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

- Rudner, Rita

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Penn, William

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

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

Rieux, Madame De

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Victoria, Queen

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Lennon, John

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

Baskins

28.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Mead, Margaret

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.