Motivational Quotes

Marriage

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about 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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Irving, Washington

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

10.

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

11.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

12.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

13.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

14.

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

18.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Elizabeth I

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

29.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

31.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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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

33.

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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

40.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

42.

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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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

44.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

45.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

49.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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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