Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Marriage

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

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

Bennett, Jill

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

11.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Allen, Woody

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

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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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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

19.

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

Nick Faldo

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

Jong, Erica

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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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 love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Hitopadesa

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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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