Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Connolly, Cyril

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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

Baum, Vicki

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smalley, Gary

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

31.

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 best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Congreve, William

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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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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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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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.