Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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.

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Halen

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

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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

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

21.

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Helen Rowland

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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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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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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, German

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rita Rudner

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

West, Mae

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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