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

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

Prior, Matthew

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Rowland, Helen

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Rita Rudner

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Young, Brigham

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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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

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Kauffman, Max

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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baskins

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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.