Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Bush, Barbara

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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.

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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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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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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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.

Allen, Marty

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Helen Rowland

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

Ann Landers

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Bennett, Jill

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.