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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

Key, Ellen

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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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Graham, James

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

23.

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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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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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

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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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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

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Luther, Martin

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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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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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