Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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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

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

17.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hitopadesa

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Eliot, George

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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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Hitopadesa

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

30.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Winters, Shelley

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier