Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Rowland, Helen

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Wycherley, William

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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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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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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Hitopadesa

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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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.

Murray, Joe

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hitopadesa

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