Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Sunday, Billy

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Mead, Margaret

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

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

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Vries, Peter De

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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 neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

32.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

33.

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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Elizabeth I

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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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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

45.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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

Victoria, Queen

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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