Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Jong, Erica

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

Landers, Ann

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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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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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

West, Mae

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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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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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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 is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

35.

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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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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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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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

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

Moliere

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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