Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Baskins

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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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

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

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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.

Landers, Ann

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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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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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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