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

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Halen

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Maurois, Andre

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb

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

Elizabeth I

10.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

11.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

12.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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

Marx, Groucho

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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 man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Congreve, William

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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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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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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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Mignon McLaughlin

34.

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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

39.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

42.

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

Kinison, Sam

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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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

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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

49.

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

Rita Rudner

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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