Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Marriage

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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 can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

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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

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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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've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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

Proverb

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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis