Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

- Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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.

Ann Landers

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Vass, Susan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

12.

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

Eliot, George

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Congreve, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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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

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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

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

31.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Byron, Lord

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Kauffman, Max

46.

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

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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

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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

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

50.

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

Vries, Peter De