Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

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

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

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

Rita Rudner

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

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

13.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

14.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

19.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Hitopadesa

23.

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

24.

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

Bundy, Peg

25.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

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

27.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

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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

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

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

32.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

36.

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

42.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Barrymore, John

44.

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

Moliere

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

49.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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