Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Marriage

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Eliot, George

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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.

Updike, John

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

25.

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

Wilder, Thornton

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Jong, Erica

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

Congreve, William

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

Kinison, Sam

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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

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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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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette