Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

10.

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

Vries, Peter De

11.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

19.

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

Skelton, Red

20.

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

21.

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

Hull, Raymond

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vass, Susan

24.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Irving, Washington

33.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

45.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

48.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.