Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Harrison, Jane

Best Quotes about Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

11.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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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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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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

22.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

41.

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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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner