Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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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

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

West, Mae

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

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

William Shakespeare

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Moliere

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Hitopadesa

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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.

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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

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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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.

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

41.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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

Allen, Woody

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

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Lennon, John