Motivational Quotes

Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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

Novalis

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

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Bush, Barbara

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Congreve, William

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Moliere

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

40.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hitopadesa

45.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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