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

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.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Bennett, Jill

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

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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

Coward, Noel

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Winters, Shelley

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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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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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Moliere

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Maurois, Andre

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis