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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Allen, Woody

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

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Winters, Shelley

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

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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

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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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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Hitopadesa

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

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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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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

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Skelton, Red

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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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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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Moliere

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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