Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Elizabeth I

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Penn, William

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

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

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Victoria, Queen

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Skelton, Red

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Prior, Matthew

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

29.

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

Bundy, Peg

30.

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

31.

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

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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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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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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Moliere

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Samuel, Herbert

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert