Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Marriage

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Peter Blake

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

10.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

11.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

12.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

13.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Victoria, Queen

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

Hesiod

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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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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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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Luther, Martin

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

30.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

37.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Helen Rowland

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

48.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid