Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Knowles, F. M.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Vass, Susan

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Congreve, William

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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

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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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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna