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

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

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Updike, John

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

Duncan, Isadora

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Smalley, Gary

10.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Baum, Vicki

12.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

20.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

21.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

30.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

32.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Myers, Cecil

38.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

45.

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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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