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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Irving, Washington

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

10.

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

Graham, James

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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

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

14.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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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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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

19.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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

Key, Ellen

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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]

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

Baskins

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

28.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

31.

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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

33.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

34.

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

35.

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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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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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Nick Faldo

42.

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 marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

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