Motivational Quotes

Marriage

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

- Paul Tournier

Best Quotes about Marriage

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.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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 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

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

21.

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

22.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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.

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Eucharista Ward

30.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Miller, Harlan

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Thomason, Pauline

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

West, Mae

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bundy, Peg

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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.