Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Hitopadesa

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

Penn, William

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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.

28.

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.

Landers, Ann

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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

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

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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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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

41.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Scottish

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