Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

- Smith, Anna Nicole

Best Quotes about Marriage

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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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 the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Proverb

21.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Elizabeth I

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

William Shakespeare

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

27.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

35.

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

36.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

William Shakespeare

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Ann Landers

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.