Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

William Shakespeare

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Baum, Vicki

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

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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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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Rieux, Madame De

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

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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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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara