Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

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

Andre Maurois

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

Irving, Washington

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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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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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Maurois, Andre

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Kinison, Sam

32.

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

33.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

34.

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

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

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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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Luther, Martin

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.