Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Marriage

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

10.

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

11.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

12.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

14.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Byron, Lord

19.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

25.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

26.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

37.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

38.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

39.

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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.