Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Marriage

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Vries, Peter De

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Maurois, Andre

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

10.

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

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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

12.

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

Peter Blake

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

21.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Bible

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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.

Ann Landers

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Murray, Joe

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Congreve, William

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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

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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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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Vass, Susan

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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.