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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

13.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

21.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Updike, John

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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.

34.

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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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

47.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl