Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

Moliere

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Diller, Phyllis

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Peter Blake

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Skelton, Red

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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

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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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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Nick Faldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

27.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

28.

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

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

30.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Rieux, Madame De

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

36.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Key, Ellen

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

Barrymore, John

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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb