Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hitopadesa

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

12.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

22.

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

Smalley, Gary

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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

24.

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.

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

30.

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

Kathleen Norris

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

32.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

34.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

36.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

43.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

44.

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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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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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

47.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

48.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

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