Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is socialism among two people.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruckett

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Knowles, F. M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

10.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rowland, Helen

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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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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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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Hesiod

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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

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

Kauffman, Max

20.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Myers, Cecil

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Hitopadesa

28.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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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 day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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

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

40.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

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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

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

44.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lawana Blackwell