Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

11.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

19.

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

20.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

27.

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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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

Heine, Heinrich

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De