Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Helen Rowland

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

Andre Maurois

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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

18.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Halen

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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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

26.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

29.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

30.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

32.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sondheim, Stephen

36.

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

Mae West

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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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

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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.

43.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Hitopadesa

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rowland, Helen

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot