Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

10.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

11.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

12.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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 is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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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

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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

18.

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

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

Bennett, Jill

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Landers, Ann

25.

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

26.

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

Kinison, Sam

27.

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

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

30.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

31.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

32.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

39.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Barrymore, John

41.

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

Rudner, Rita

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa