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

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

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.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Grizzard, Lewis

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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.

Rowland, Helen

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

William Shakespeare

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Hull, Raymond

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Dave Meurer

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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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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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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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham