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

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Moliere

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

Maurois, Andre

17.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

20.

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

21.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

22.

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

26.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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

31.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

33.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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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

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

45.

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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De