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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Ford, Richard

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

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

Congreve, William

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

11.

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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Kauffman, Max

18.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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

Smalley, Gary

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Skelton, Red

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De