Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Marriage

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

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

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

10.

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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

18.

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

Cosby, Bill

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

25.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

33.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

40.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

41.

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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

45.

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

Kauffman, Max

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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