Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

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

Bible

Cartland, Barbara

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

18.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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 one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

31.

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

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Luther, Martin

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Moliere

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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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

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.