Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Marriage

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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.

Ann Landers

11.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

12.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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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

14.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

15.

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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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 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.

18.

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

19.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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

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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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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

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

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

33.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Maurois, Andre

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

45.

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

Nick Faldo

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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 is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

48.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich