Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Allen, Woody

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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

Diller, Phyllis

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Wycherley, William

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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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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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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

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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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Murray, Joe

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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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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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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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Graham, James

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

Vries, Peter De

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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

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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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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose