Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Pearl Buck

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Will Rogers

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Baskins

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Andre Maurois

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

Nick Faldo

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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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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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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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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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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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bennett, Jill

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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