Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Key, Ellen

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

Will Rogers

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

Ruckett

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Wilder, Thornton

15.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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

21.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Congreve, William

25.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

30.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

31.

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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Hitopadesa

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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