Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Winters, Shelley

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

10.

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

11.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

12.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

Bundy, Peg

14.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

15.

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

Nick Faldo

16.

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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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

21.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

25.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

26.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

27.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

36.

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

37.

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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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

41.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

42.

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

Hitopadesa

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

44.

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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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

46.

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

Proverb, Scottish

47.

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

Coward, Noel

48.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.