Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Marriage

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

Baum, Vicki

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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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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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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 am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Kinison, Sam

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Hitopadesa

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Key, Ellen

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

Eliot, George

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

Prior, Matthew

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