Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Marriage

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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

Allen, Woody

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Ford, Richard

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Byron, Lord

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

Peter Blake

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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

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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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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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

William Shakespeare

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Halen

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