Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Elizabeth I

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Will Rogers

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hitopadesa

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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coward, Noel

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Halen

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Congreve, William

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

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare