Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Smalley, Gary

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

30.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

35.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Proverb, Scottish

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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.