Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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

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

Kinison, Sam

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

10.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

Barrymore, John

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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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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

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

18.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Halen

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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

Knowles, F. M.

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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

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

33.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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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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

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Coward, Noel

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

39.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.