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

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, George

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.

Ann Landers

10.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

11.

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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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Balzac, Honore De

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Ruckett

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

Halen

31.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb

35.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Jong, Erica

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

45.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

Winters, Shelley

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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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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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West