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

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

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

West, Mae

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

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

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

Lennon, John

27.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

28.

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

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Halen

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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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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

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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Young, Brigham

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

44.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.