Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Dupuy, Alexis

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

35.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

38.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

39.

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

Lennon, John

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

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Graham, James

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Duncan, Isadora

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Coward, Noel