Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

- Kinison, Sam

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Nick Faldo

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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

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Ford, Richard

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

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Rowland, Helen

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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