Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Halen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Helen Rowland

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

13.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elizabeth I

22.

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

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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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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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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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

40.

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

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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.

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.