Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Baskins

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

11.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Farquhar, George

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

19.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

21.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

25.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

26.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

27.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Allen, Woody

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

32.

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

33.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

34.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

39.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

42.

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

Victoria, Queen

43.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

44.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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.

Ruckett

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb