Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Bundy, Peg

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Clarke, W. A.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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

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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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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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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

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murray, Joe

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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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

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Peter Blake

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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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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

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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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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.