Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

- Smith, Anna Nicole

Best Quotes about Marriage

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jong, Erica

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Thomason, Pauline

25.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

27.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

31.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Rowland, Helen

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

40.

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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

44.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

45.

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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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

West, Mae

48.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.