Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Rita Rudner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

11.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

12.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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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

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

18.

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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Penn, William

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

Hitopadesa

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bible

31.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

34.

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

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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

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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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Halen

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

Smalley, Gary

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.