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

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Baum, Vicki

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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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

21.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb

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

Vries, Peter De

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Kauffman, Max

36.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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