Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mickey Rooney

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.

14.

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

William Shakespeare

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

18.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

19.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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

21.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

22.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

23.

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

Bible

24.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

25.

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

26.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

29.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

31.

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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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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

41.

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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

46.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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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