Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Baskins

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb, Scottish

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Halen

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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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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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bible

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

Ford, Richard

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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

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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 like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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 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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rita Rudner

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis