Motivational Quotes

Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Moliere

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

10.

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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

17.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

18.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

20.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

25.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Ford, Richard

30.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Baskins

32.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

35.

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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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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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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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

43.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Kauffman, Max

45.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

46.

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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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

48.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

49.

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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat