Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Anspacher, Louis K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Vass, Susan

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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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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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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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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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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

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Key, Ellen

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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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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Baskins

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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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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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