Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Hesiod

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Skelton, Red

13.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

23.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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

25.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Moliere

27.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Bennett, Jill

30.

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

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Nick Faldo

32.

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

Barrymore, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Knowles, F. M.

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