Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

11.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

12.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

18.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

29.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

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

Ford, Richard

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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.

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Baskins

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

Kauffman, Max

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb, Scottish