Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Alexander, Shana

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mickey Rooney

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Halen

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Winters, Shelley

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Victoria, Queen

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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