Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Eliot, George

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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.

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

Ruckett

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Key, Ellen

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Myers, Cecil

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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

31.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Victoria, Queen

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Jong, Erica

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

Coward, Noel

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Rita Rudner

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

43.

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

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Congreve, William

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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