Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ford, Richard

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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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 is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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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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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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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

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

Sunday, Billy

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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

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

William Shakespeare

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Eliot, George

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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

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

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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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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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill