Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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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.

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

Rita Rudner

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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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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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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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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

William Shakespeare

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Baskins

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen