Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Victoria, Queen

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Penn, William

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

Allen, Woody

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

Nick Faldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

19.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

20.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hull, Raymond

24.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

25.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

29.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

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

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

Graham, James

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

Ruckett

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

43.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

45.

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

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

48.

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

Bible

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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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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare