Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Wilder, Thornton

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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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

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Dworkin, Andrea

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

22.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

32.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

34.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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 an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.