Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kathleen Norris

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maurois, Andre

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

William Shakespeare

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Prior, Matthew

18.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

19.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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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.

24.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

25.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

26.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

36.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

39.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

48.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.