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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

10.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

11.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

12.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

14.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

17.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

20.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

21.

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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

23.

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

24.

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

Farquhar, George

25.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

29.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

35.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Halen

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

43.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

44.

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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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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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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