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

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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

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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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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Congreve, William

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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Asquith, Margot

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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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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Ford, Richard

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Allen, Woody

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