Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Vass, Susan

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

Duncan, Isadora

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Rita Rudner

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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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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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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bennett, Jill

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Updike, John

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

32.

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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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.