Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

- Anspacher, Louis K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Penn, William

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Balzac, Honore De

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

12.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

17.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

18.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

22.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Key, Ellen

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

32.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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

38.

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

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

Byron, Lord

40.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

42.

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

43.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

44.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Mae West

46.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Skelton, Red

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.