Motivational Quotes

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

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

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

Hull, Raymond

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Rowland, Helen

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Miller, Harlan

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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

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

Moliere

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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