Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

- Gaskell, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rita Rudner

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Wilde, Oscar

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Key, Ellen

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

10.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

11.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

15.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

16.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

17.

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

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

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Smalley, Gary

22.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

23.

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

Andre Maurois

24.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Bible

28.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

29.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

30.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Ford, Richard

34.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

35.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

39.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

43.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

Ruckett

46.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

48.

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

Wycherley, William

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin