Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Elizabeth I

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

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

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

11.

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

12.

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

Congreve, William

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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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

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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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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Coward, Noel

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

30.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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 don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Moliere

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Diller, Phyllis