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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Jong, Erica

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

Billings, Josh

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wycherley, William

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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

Eliot, George

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

27.

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

Proverb

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

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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

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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

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

41.

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

Mickey Rooney

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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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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

44.

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

Winters, Shelley

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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

47.

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

Moliere

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.