Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Smith, Sydney

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Pearl Buck

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 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

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

10.

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

11.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Landers, Ann

13.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

19.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

23.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

25.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

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

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

30.

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.

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

33.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

34.

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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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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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 you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

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

Vass, Susan

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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

40.

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

Bennett, Jill

42.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

43.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Coward, Noel

45.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

46.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

48.

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

49.

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

Farquhar, George