Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

- Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

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

Hesiod

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

Elizabeth I

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

10.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

11.

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

12.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

15.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

17.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

19.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

21.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

22.

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

23.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

25.

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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

28.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

29.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

30.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

31.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

32.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

33.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Bible

36.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

37.

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

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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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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

43.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

45.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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

47.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

49.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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