Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

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

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hull, Raymond

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Proverb

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Rieux, Madame De

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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