Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Marriage

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

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

Kathleen Norris

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Bible

10.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Vries, Peter De

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

16.

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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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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

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

Byron, Lord

25.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

26.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

32.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Elizabeth I

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Maurois, Andre

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Cosby, Bill

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hull, Raymond

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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