Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Moliere

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Luther, Martin

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Peter Blake

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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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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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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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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