Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

- Smith, Anna Nicole

Best Quotes about Marriage

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb, Scottish

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Nick Faldo

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

10.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

11.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

12.

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

Rita Rudner

15.

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

Murray, Joe

16.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

17.

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

Mead, Margaret

18.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

20.

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

Winters, Shelley

21.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

22.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

26.

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

Skelton, Red

27.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

28.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

36.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

37.

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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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.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

Hesiod

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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

45.

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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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