Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Clarke, W. A.

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maurois, Andre

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Baum, Vicki

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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 takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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 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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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