Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Winters, Shelley

Best Quotes about Marriage

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Heine, Heinrich

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Elizabeth I

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

10.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

11.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

Rita Rudner

15.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

Bundy, Peg

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

19.

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

Bennett, Jill

20.

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

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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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

25.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Wilder, Thornton

27.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

28.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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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

32.

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

33.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

34.

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

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

Nick Faldo

39.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

40.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

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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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

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

48.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.