Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Jong, Erica

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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 isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

William Shakespeare

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre