Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

- Goldman, Emma

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

11.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

15.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

19.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

22.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

24.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Nelms, Cynthia

30.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

31.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

33.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

34.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

35.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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

37.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

38.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

39.

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

Balzac, Honore De

40.

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

Vass, Susan

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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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

44.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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

Key, Ellen

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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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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

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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