Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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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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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruckett

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

26.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Marx, Groucho

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

32.

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

Hull, Raymond

33.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Farquhar, George

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

38.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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