Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Coward, Noel

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

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

Kauffman, Max

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

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

Jong, Erica

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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 the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

19.

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

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Key, Ellen

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis