Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Eliot, George

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

Lawrence, D. H.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Novalis

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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

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

Proverb

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

22.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

27.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Baskins

29.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

31.

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

Victoria, Queen

32.

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

33.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Barrymore, John

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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

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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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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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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

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma