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

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

11.

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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

16.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Hitopadesa

18.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Rudner, Rita

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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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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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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

30.

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

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Eucharista Ward

47.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Spencer, Herbert