Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Elizabeth I

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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

Proverb

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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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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

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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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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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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.

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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