Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

- Smith, Anna Nicole

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Proverb

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Byron, Lord

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Samuel, Herbert

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare