Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Landers, Ann

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Kinison, Sam

10.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

11.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

12.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

13.

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

Bible

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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.

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Irving, Washington

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

28.

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

Diller, Phyllis

29.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

30.

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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

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

Key, Ellen

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

37.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

38.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

40.

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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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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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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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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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 there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert