Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Young, Brigham

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

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Penn, William

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

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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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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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.

Landers, Ann

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Key, Ellen

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

23.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

24.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

25.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

26.

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

27.

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

Halen

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

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

Myers, Cecil

30.

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

Rudner, Rita

31.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

35.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

36.

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

Nick Faldo

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

William Shakespeare

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales