Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

Farquhar, George

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Vass, Susan

10.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

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

Wycherley, William

13.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

25.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

28.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

30.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

35.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

36.

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

Skelton, Red

37.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

39.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Nelms, Cynthia

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Moliere

45.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John