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

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

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

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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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

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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Lincoln, Abraham