Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

11.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

20.

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

Farquhar, George

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Smith, Sydney

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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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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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

44.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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