Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Will Rogers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kinison, Sam

10.

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

Rudner, Rita

11.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

23.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

25.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

26.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

28.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

29.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

34.

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

Moliere

35.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Clarke, W. A.

37.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

40.

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

Hull, Raymond

41.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

42.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

43.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

45.

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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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara