Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Sunday, Billy

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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

19.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Luther, Martin

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Proverb

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Carson, Johnny

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William