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

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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

Duncan, Isadora

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Winters, Shelley

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Hull, Raymond

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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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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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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

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Wycherley, William

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

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

William Shakespeare

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Hitopadesa

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

Key, Ellen

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

Andre Maurois

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Hitopadesa

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.