Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Rita Rudner

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

10.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

15.

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

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

18.

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

Jong, Erica

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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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

33.

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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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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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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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. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl