Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Graham, James

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

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Wilder, Thornton

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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb, German

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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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 secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.