Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Luther, Martin

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Balzac, Honore De

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

19.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

20.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

21.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Hitopadesa

25.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

27.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

35.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

36.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Moliere

41.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

42.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

43.

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

44.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

45.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

48.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

49.

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

50.

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

William Shakespeare