Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

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

Rowland, Helen

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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

11.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bundy, Peg

14.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

William Shakespeare

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Hitopadesa

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

27.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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

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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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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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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Rita Rudner

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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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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

41.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Helen Rowland

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

Grizzard, Lewis

48.

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

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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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