Motivational Quotes

Marriage

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Andre Maurois

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

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Ford, Richard

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

Duncan, Isadora

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mickey Rooney

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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

Winters, Shelley

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Rudner, Rita

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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb

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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

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides