Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smalley, Gary

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rooney, Mickey

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

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

Congreve, William

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Heine, Heinrich

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

10.

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

11.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

14.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

16.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

17.

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

Ford, Richard

18.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

19.

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

Graham, James

20.

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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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

23.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

24.

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

Wilson, Earl

25.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

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

Peter Blake

34.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

35.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

William Shakespeare

40.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

42.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

44.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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

48.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

49.

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

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin