Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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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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

11.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

14.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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

23.

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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

27.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

28.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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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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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

31.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

32.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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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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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

37.

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

38.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

44.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Graham, James

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