Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

- Alexander, Shana

Best Quotes about Marriage

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

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

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

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

Peter Blake

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

10.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

17.

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 pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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

Ford, Richard

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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

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

West, Mae

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

31.

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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bennett, Jill

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

42.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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.

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

Proverb

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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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.