Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Kauffman, Max

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Bundy, Peg

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Coward, Noel

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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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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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb

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

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Key, Ellen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

39.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

40.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

41.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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

Elizabeth I

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

Smalley, Gary

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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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