Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Landers, Ann

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

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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

21.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

22.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Proverb

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

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

Smalley, Gary

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

35.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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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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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

44.

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

Proverb

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

46.

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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

49.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma