Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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

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

Winters, Shelley

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Thomason, Pauline

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bundy, Peg

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

Kinison, Sam

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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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

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

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