Motivational Quotes

Marriage

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

- Ann Landers

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Moliere

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Heine, Heinrich

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Coward, Noel

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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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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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 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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Ruckett

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

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.