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

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

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Kauffman, Max

11.

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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

35.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

37.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

39.

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

Kinison, Sam

40.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

47.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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