Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

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

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

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

Skelton, Red

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

Vass, Susan

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

Byron, Lord

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

11.

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

12.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

23.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

24.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Irving, Washington

27.

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

28.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

29.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

31.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

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

35.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

36.

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

Victoria, Queen

37.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

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

Sunday, Billy

39.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

40.

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

Coward, Noel

42.

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

43.

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

Duncan, Isadora

44.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

45.

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

Bible

46.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

49.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean