Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

Ann Landers

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mae West

10.

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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

18.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Marx, Groucho

25.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

33.

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

Kinison, Sam

34.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

36.

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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

Proverb

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

Eucharista Ward

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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.