Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

- Grizzard, Lewis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Kathleen Norris

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

12.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Allen, Woody

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

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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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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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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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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 think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick