Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

10.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

12.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

13.

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

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

20.

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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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

24.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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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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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Key, Ellen

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Myers, Cecil

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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 not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Kinison, Sam

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

48.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

49.

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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De