Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Mickey Rooney

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Proverb

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sunday, Billy

25.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Billings, Josh

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rita Rudner

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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