Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

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

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

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

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Eliot, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

17.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

18.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

19.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

20.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

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

26.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

29.

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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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

33.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Clarke, W. A.

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De