Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Ford, Richard

11.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

15.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

16.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Bundy, Peg

18.

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

Key, Ellen

20.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

21.

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

22.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

26.

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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Proverb

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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

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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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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