Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Luther, Martin

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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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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 man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Pound, Ezra

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Landers, Ann

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

Eliot, George

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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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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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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. 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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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

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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 a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.