Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

11.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Coward, Noel

18.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Kathleen Norris

20.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

21.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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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

29.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Prior, Matthew

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.