Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

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

Baskins

12.

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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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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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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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Congreve, William

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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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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 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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Ford, Richard

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

40.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Winters, Shelley

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

Elizabeth I

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.