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

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

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

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

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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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

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

Moliere

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

Baskins

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.