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

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kauffman, Max

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

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

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

Moliere

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Victoria, Queen

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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

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

William Shakespeare

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma