Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Proverb, German

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

12.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

17.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

20.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

21.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

22.

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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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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

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

28.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

29.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

30.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

33.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

34.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

40.

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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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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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

44.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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