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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Knowles, F. M.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hitopadesa

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

Rita Rudner

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

Rowland, Helen

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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Ibsen, Henrik

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

29.

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 is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

32.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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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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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

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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