Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

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

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

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

William Shakespeare

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Updike, John

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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

Wilson, Earl

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Mae West

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.