Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Lawana Blackwell

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

10.

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

11.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Webb, Mary

13.

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

Duncan, Isadora

14.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

15.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

17.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

18.

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

19.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

20.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

21.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

22.

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

Vass, Susan

23.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

24.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Wilder, Thornton

30.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

31.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

32.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

34.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

39.

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

West, Mae

40.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

41.

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

42.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin