Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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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

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

10.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

12.

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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

19.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

25.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

Mead, Margaret

27.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

28.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

29.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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.

31.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Rieux, Madame De

33.

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

34.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Bible

41.

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

Kathleen Norris

42.

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

48.

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

49.

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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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