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

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Vass, Susan

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

20.

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

Proverb, German

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

Hesiod

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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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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

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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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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Updike, John

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Halen

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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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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

41.

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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Marx, Groucho

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre