Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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

Diller, Phyllis

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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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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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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

Chopin, Daniel

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Andre Maurois

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Rita Rudner

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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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

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph