Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Jong, Erica

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Rita Rudner

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Kinison, Sam

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

18.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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

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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

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Baum, Vicki

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

31.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Congreve, William

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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