Motivational Quotes

Marriage

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

- Wilson, Earl

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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

Fuller, Thomas

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Jong, Erica

10.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

11.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Knowles, F. M.

14.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

20.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Will Rogers

29.

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

Victoria, Queen

33.

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

Helen Rowland

34.

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

35.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Irving, Washington

37.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Byron, Lord

40.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

43.

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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 always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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