Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Elizabeth I

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

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

10.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

17.

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

Bundy, Peg

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Andre Maurois

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

29.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Farquhar, George

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

35.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Bush, Barbara

40.

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

41.

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

Hitopadesa

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Victoria, Queen

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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