Motivational Quotes

Marriage

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

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

Peter Blake

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

Andre Maurois

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb

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

Key, Ellen

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Hesiod

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.