Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sunday, Billy

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

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

Peter Blake

11.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bible

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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

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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

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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

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Murray, Joe

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Hitopadesa

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Graham, James

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Wycherley, William

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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

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

Ruckett

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

Smalley, Gary

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Proverb

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril