Motivational Quotes

Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Congreve, William

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Key, Ellen

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Smalley, Gary

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

28.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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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.

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Farquhar, George

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

Vass, Susan

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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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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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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

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

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

Harrison, Jane

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

West, Mae

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)