Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Proverb

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

Rita Rudner

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

13.

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

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Graham, James

27.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

28.

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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

30.

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

Rooney, Mickey

31.

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

32.

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

Pancoast, Mal

33.

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

34.

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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

45.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Lennon, John