Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Myers, Cecil

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

William Shakespeare

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Young, Brigham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Winters, Shelley

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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