Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hesiod

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

10.

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

Will Rogers

11.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

12.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

13.

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

Balzac, Honore De

14.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

15.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

18.

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

19.

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

Ruckett

20.

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

Updike, John

21.

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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

23.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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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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

30.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

31.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

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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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

38.

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

39.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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 not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Alexander, Shana

50.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

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