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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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

Mae West

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

11.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

14.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

15.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

16.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

17.

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

Dave Meurer

18.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

19.

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

20.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

21.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

23.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

24.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

25.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

28.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Pearl Buck

31.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

35.

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

Proverb

36.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

37.

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.

38.

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

Connolly, Cyril

39.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

40.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

41.

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

42.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

44.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.