Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

17.

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

18.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

22.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

23.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

26.

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

Eucharista Ward

27.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Baskins

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

33.

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

Spencer, Herbert

34.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

36.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

37.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

39.

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

40.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

42.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

44.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

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

46.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

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

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

Wilder, Thornton

49.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.