Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Proverb

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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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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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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Hitopadesa

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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

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

William Shakespeare

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

Duncan, Isadora

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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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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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica