Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Prior, Matthew

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Sunday, Billy

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Kathleen Norris

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

13.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

14.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

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

16.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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

18.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Bennett, Jill

27.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

28.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

29.

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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

33.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

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

35.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

41.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

42.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

45.

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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

47.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

49.

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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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales