Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Thomason, Pauline

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lennon, John

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Jong, Erica

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Moliere

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Penn, William

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

Kinison, Sam

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

19.

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

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Nick Faldo

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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

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

Hull, Raymond

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

34.

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

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Updike, John

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Vass, Susan