Motivational Quotes

Marriage

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

12.

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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

West, Mae

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Baskins

18.

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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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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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Hitopadesa

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

Novalis

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

Mead, Margaret

24.

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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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Barrymore, John

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Kathleen Norris

40.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.