Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Wilson, Earl

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

West, Mae

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Key, Ellen

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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

Rieux, Madame De

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Helen Rowland