Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Key, Ellen

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

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

Dave Meurer

11.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

12.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Victoria, Queen

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

17.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 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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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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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

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

43.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.