Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

10.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

12.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Allen, Woody

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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 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

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

Key, Ellen

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Helen Rowland

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.