Motivational Quotes

Marriage

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Marriage

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

Vries, Peter De

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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Carson, Johnny

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Thomason, Pauline

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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

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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

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

Dave Meurer

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin