Motivational Quotes

Marriage

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

- Miller, Dennis

Best Quotes about Marriage

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

William Shakespeare

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ford, Richard

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

Bible

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

10.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

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

Pearl Buck

13.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

14.

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

Landers, Ann

15.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

16.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

17.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

18.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

25.

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

Bundy, Peg

26.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

27.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

28.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

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.

30.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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

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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

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

Proverb

39.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

40.

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

41.

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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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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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

44.

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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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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

Lawana Blackwell