Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Marriage

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Farquhar, George

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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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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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Proverb, Scottish

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

William Shakespeare

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rita Rudner

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Proverb

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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