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

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Myers, Cecil

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

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

Samuel, Herbert

10.

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

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

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

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

14.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dupuy, Alexis

25.

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

Bible

26.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

27.

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

Bush, Barbara

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Hull, Raymond

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

32.

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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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.

35.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

40.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

William Shakespeare

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

45.

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

Ruckett

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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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