Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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

William Shakespeare

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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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

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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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

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Mae West

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Prior, Matthew

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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 there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.