Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

- Ibsen, Henrik

Best Quotes about Marriage

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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

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

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

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

10.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

11.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

12.

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

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

14.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Proverb

18.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

19.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

20.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

21.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

22.

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

23.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

24.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

25.

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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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

27.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

28.

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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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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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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

34.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

35.

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

36.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

37.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

38.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Samuel, Herbert

41.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

44.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

45.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

46.

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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

49.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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