Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Heine, Heinrich

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

10.

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

Wycherley, William

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Eucharista Ward

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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

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

20.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Rita Rudner

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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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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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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sunday, Billy

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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