Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ruckett

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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.

18.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Farquhar, George

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

24.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Samuel, Herbert

28.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

30.

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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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

32.

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

Helen Rowland

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Landers, Ann

35.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

37.

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

Rita Rudner

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

Ford, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Smith, Sydney

41.

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

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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

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Baskins

49.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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