Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

14.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Victoria, Queen

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Coward, Noel

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

22.

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

Allen, Woody

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

26.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

28.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

29.

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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Baskins

32.

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

Samuel, Herbert

33.

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

Hull, Raymond

34.

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

Proverb, Scottish

35.

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

Duncan, Isadora

36.

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

37.

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

Kathleen Norris

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

40.

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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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

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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.