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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Spanish

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Bennett, Jill

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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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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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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wycherley, William

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Ruckett

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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

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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

Eucharista Ward

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

33.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Winters, Shelley

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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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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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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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

50.

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