Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Landers, Ann

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

Wycherley, William

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

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

Hesiod

10.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

13.

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.

14.

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Nick Faldo

17.

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

18.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

19.

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

Moliere

20.

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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

22.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Halen

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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

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

27.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

29.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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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 neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rita Rudner

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

Mignon McLaughlin

36.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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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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

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

50.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner