Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Penn, William

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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

Key, Ellen

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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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

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

Balzac, Honore De

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Smith, Sydney

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bennett, Jill

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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mignon McLaughlin