Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Grizzard, Lewis

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Cosby, Bill

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Sunday, Billy

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

William Shakespeare

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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 the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

Marx, Groucho

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Allen, Woody

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.