Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mae West

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Key, Ellen

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lennon, John

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Murray, Joe

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Hull, Raymond

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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Skelton, Red

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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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

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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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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