Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Vass, Susan

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

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

Byron, Lord

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Hull, Raymond

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Landers, Ann

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

Chopin, Daniel

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Eucharista Ward

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Coward, Noel

35.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Allen, Woody

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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

41.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

42.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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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]

Bible

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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