Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Skelton, Red

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

Congreve, William

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

13.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

14.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

15.

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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

20.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

21.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

22.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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

27.

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

Peter Blake

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

30.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

31.

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

Vass, Susan

32.

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

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

43.

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

Balzac, Honore De

44.

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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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 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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

49.

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

Irving, Washington

50.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph