Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Hitopadesa

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bush, Barbara

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Mencken, H. L.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Updike, John

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

Helen Rowland

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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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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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

Halen

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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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Rita Rudner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Murray, Joe

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois