Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

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

Sunday, Billy

12.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

13.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

15.

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

Bundy, Peg

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

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

21.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Knowles, F. M.

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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

30.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

32.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

33.

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

Eucharista Ward

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

41.

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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

43.

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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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