Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sondheim, Stephen

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

10.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

11.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

12.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Hitopadesa

15.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

16.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

17.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

18.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

19.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nelms, Cynthia

23.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Baum, Vicki

25.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

30.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Connolly, Cyril

33.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

39.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

40.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

46.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Allen, Woody