Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Barrymore, John

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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 secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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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 never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Graham, James

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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