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

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

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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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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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

18.

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 based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Wycherley, William

24.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Cosby, Bill

28.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Ford, Richard

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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

31.

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

Winters, Shelley

32.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

33.

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

Key, Ellen

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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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

44.

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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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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