Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Marriage

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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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

11.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

15.

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

Mickey Rooney

16.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

17.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

19.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

20.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

21.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

22.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

24.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

28.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

29.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

30.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

34.

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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

36.

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

Thomason, Pauline

37.

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

38.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

40.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

41.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

44.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

45.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

47.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

48.

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

49.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord