Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Marx, Groucho

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Coward, Noel

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

27.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

Vries, Peter De

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

32.

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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

34.

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

Chopin, Daniel

35.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

36.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Halen

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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.

39.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.