Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Murray, Joe

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Bible

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

32.

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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

Skelton, Red

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Rita Rudner

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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 nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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