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

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

Hitopadesa

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Proverb

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

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Murray, Joe

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

19.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Peter Blake

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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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Schreiner, Olive

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Helen Rowland

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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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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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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Ford, Richard

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Bible

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Winters, Shelley

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Novalis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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 man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.