Motivational Quotes

Marriage

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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.

Ann Landers

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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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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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

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

Skelton, Red

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann