Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

15.

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

16.

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

Myers, Cecil

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

19.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

20.

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.

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

Penn, William

23.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

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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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

28.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

29.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

32.

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

33.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

38.

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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

41.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

42.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Moliere

44.

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

45.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

48.

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

Mae West

49.

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

West, Mae

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard