Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Wycherley, William

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kauffman, Max

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

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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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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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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.

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

Key, Ellen

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Moliere

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

Mead, Margaret

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.