Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Halen

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

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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 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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

13.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Key, Ellen

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Mickey Rooney

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Elizabeth I

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell