Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Sondheim, Stephen

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Chopin, Daniel

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Rowland, Helen

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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

Baskins

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Storr, Anthony

12.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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

Clarke, W. A.

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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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

Proverb

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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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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Jong, Erica

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Penn, William

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Smalley, Gary

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham