Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Dupuy, Alexis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Bennett, Jill

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Peter Blake

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Victoria, Queen

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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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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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

34.

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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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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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 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

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Cosby, Bill

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Wilder, Thornton

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.